by Kit | Sep 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sure, when I think of 9/11 I remember the terror. But also the coming together. With our common enemy in view, we felt united with strangers, all of us facing the same shock and fears. We grieved and we rallied—as one. Maybe you noticed a similar phenomenon last year,...
by Kit | Dec 11, 2018 | Advent Reflections, On Living
A Vintage Christmas {Advent series, Week 2} Go here to read Week 1. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if...
by Kit | Dec 12, 2017 | Advent Reflections
Five days before Christmas, I sat in a booth with a marble table, swallowing a bite of mint-chip ice cream I’d barely tasted. “Okay,” I said. “Let’s schedule it.” Garth’s eyes danced. “We’re gonna have a baby tomorrow?” I smiled. “We’re gonna have a baby tomorrow.”...
by Kit | Dec 13, 2016 | Advent Reflections
But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. —Luke 2:19 Between the angels and the shepherds, there’s a whole lot of praising and glorifying going on in the Christmas story. But in the center of it all we see Mary, still and...
by Kit | Aug 12, 2016 | On Living, On Mission, Think About these Things, Whatever is Commendable
“Racism is the most common sin in the world.” -Rick Warren On my thirty-fifth birthday, I made the front page. “Good Samaritan injured in carjacking.” Accompanying the headline were two faces drawn by a police sketch artist based on my recall...