Faith in Progress

Feb 15/16, 2020 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Organization expert Marie Kondo has a new book coming out, and I’ve been wondering if it will cause the same excitement as her last book and her Netflix series. Her show, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” was released last New Year’s Day, just in time for our family resolutions.  We watched the first show and we all loved Marie Kondo. She doesn’t speak much English, but has such a beautiful, calm aura.   We were so inspired that we set a timer for an hour and everyone chose a space to tidy.  Anything that inspires that is a win in my book!   For most of the family, that was the end of that.  But not for my husband. Holden is a government worker and his introduction to Marie Kondo came during that long stretch of furlough last year, so he had time on his hands.  He got busy on his closet, and to this day, his drawers are still folded just so -- things all lined up in Marie Kondo’s pretty tr...

February 2, 2020 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Luke 2:22-40 My kids had Monday and Tuesday off school this past week for teacher work days, so I decided to take them skiing.  None of us are very good, so we started off slow on the bunny trail. Once we graduated from that, we started trying out the different beginner trails.   One trail required us to ski across a long section of what looked at first like fairly flat land to get to the slope.  As we were laboriously hauling ourselves across using our poles, we noticed people coming towards us were holding on to handles connected to a rope tow.  We thought it looked like great fun - a way to move a little faster without all the effort. It seemed very unjust that the rope tow only moved in one direction, but we looked forward to trying it on our way back.  We had finally mastered getting off the ski lift without landing in a tangled mess, so how hard could holding onto a rope be?  ...