Twins Are One!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, May 18, 2012
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My husband had a countdown on his phone for months. Every so often he gave me an update. It was a big deal when we hit the halfway point, and three-quarters, and less than two months left. Last week, with mere days to go, I didn’t need updates. I could count for myself.
Linus Michael and Ambrose John were born just after midnight on May 12th last year. Last Saturday, they were one year old. ONE WHOLE... READ MORE
Speak the Truth
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, March 23, 2012
Friday, March 23
“His hour had not yet come.”
Everyone likes to be liked. Having others like and esteem us is so important that vanity can easily become one’s dominant defect. Vanity; the word means emptiness. People are so fickle. They like you today and tomorrow they forget you. Jesus experienced this horribly. In the space of one week, the crowds went from screaming, “Hosanna in the highest. ... READ MORE
Small Acts for God
Posted by Robyn Lee in Faith on Friday, September 23, 2011
My friend Heather and I are involved in a ministry called Theology on Tap. The basic idea of Theology on Tap is creating a forum where young people of all walks of life could talk about the faith in a casual setting at a bar or restaurant. A typical Theology on Tap consists of a 45 minute talk, 15 minutes q&a and time for fellowship afterward.
This forum opens the door to young people who wouldn’t... READ MORE
Oprah's Last Show
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
I watched the Oprah series finale this afternoon. Don’t ask me how I pulled it off—I haven’t been able to watch anything at four in the afternoon since my oldest boys were toddlers. But somehow the big boys were all gone and both babies asleep and there I sat, folding laundry and watching Oprah.
I’ll admit I used to watch Oprah way back then. I was on a big kick for a while and really did enjoy the... READ MORE
T.R.U.T.H.
Posted by Lynn Wehner in Faith on Monday, December 06, 2010
I was walking along in my neighborhood, unsettled, but doing some of my best thinking and praying of the chaotic day. Then it came to me: I was unsettled because I was in a search for Truth.
“Lord, where can I find Truth?” You know, the Truth that combats the relativism of our crazy world. The Truth that cuts through the junk and helps it all make sense. The Truth that gives me the courage to peek... READ MORE
Transforming Novels
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
I was about six years old the first time I pulled The Lord of the Rings off the bookshelf. Not to read it, of course - at that age I still considered Little Women intimidatingly long - but to page through it looking for instances of the word “Arwen” because it was exciting to see my name printed in a grown-up book. Over the next few years I spent many a happy hour that way.
My parents are big fans... READ MORE
Left Behind
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
At the end of a quick but mildly frustrating trip to Target this morning, I got to the car to discover an item had been left on the bottom of the cart.
The bleach that I tucked away while Henry and I were shopping went unnoticed by me or the clerk, and I unwittingly walked out of the store without paying for this $1.67 item.
I mention the price because as I stood there and stared with dismay at the... READ MORE
The IVF Rule
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I hadn’t thought about IVF in a long time, but this article over at the Register about Celine Dion’s latest pregnancy brought it back to my mind, and sent me back in time five years.
In the summer of 2004 it had been a year since Bryan and I had begun actively trying to conceive a child, and when that twelfth cycle brought us up short, I was devastated. Six months, eight months, ten months hadn’t... READ MORE
No News Not The Only Good News
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Saturday, May 16, 2009
This lovely column from Simcha Fisher reminded me of an observation made by a brilliant psychiatrist during a lecture I attended some years ago.
He said that if someone lives a good life but messes up once, we all think, “Aha! Now we know what he’s really like!”
The problem is, it’s not true. What we’re really like is the way we are 99% of the time, the way we’re striving to be.
Our falls, when they... READ MORE
Do The Rules Still Apply?
Posted by Matthew Archbold in Family on Thursday, March 19, 2009
My neighbor’s father walked outside while my brothers and I played wiffle ball with his son.
Sometimes, on Sunday afternoons he’d come out with a beer in his hand, sit on the grass with a comic grunt, and announce our games in epic terms while impersonating the radio voices we all knew.
That day, he told us that two “hippies” ran out on centerfield in Dodger’s Stadium attempting to burn the American... READ MORE
