People often ask me, "Where do you go to church?" To which I reply, "Cedar Grove Community Church. It's the one on College Avenue with all the big trees." In Livermore and Pleasanton, that response is met with nodding and smiling. People know my church. It's lovely. It's been there…
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Pieces of My Day
10:45 am I am at work, seated in my gray chair at my gray desk, and pulling apart a 152-page insurance policy. It's dry work, as much archeology as insurance. Terms like "appurtenant buildings" and "business income and extra expense" are trapped within an ocean of doublespeak and redundancy,…
Reacting to Jesus Camp
Along with a group of Christian friends, I just sat through the controversial documentary Jesus Camp . The movie profiles a fundamentalist group of Pentecostal Christians on their quest to "teach" the next generation what it means to follow Christ into "battle." The children in this film, all appearing to be…
Lyrical Faith
Often I find myself in concert in my car. Air microphone. Head dance choreography. I do it all. On the freeway. In the parking lot. Pulling into my garage. I do it everywhere. For Christmas, my friend Amy gave me two gifts. One was a charitable donation in my name,…
November 11
Today we honor our veterans, both dead and living, who have served in every war or conflict in which the United States has held a stake. Both of my grandfathers and both of my grandfathers-in-law served in WWII. My brothers, Ted and Curtis, are each in service to our military…
Mercy
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog entry entitled Prop 8 v. People in the Glass Houses . This entry quickly became the most viewed post on my blog in its nearly four-year history. The topic of Gay Marriage is a hot button issue in our fair country, but…
Prop 8 v. People in the Glass Houses
Last Sunday, my friends, my husband, and I attended our home church. We arrived in time for the lesson being taught in our Sunday School class about Old Testament prophesy. Questions arose, but went unanswered. Problems were acknowledged, but went unresolved. Then, out of nowhere, the topic of gay marriage…
Choose, Choosing, Chosen
When the World was less than nothing, God was sovereign. He set Time in its track and knows the length of its course. Creation of the living and the non-living, emotions and intentions, all of these He conceived first. Nothing, no one, is outside of His absolute domain. Do I…