Category: A Faith in Process

Our travels began and ended on the train. An Amtrak roomette is about the size of my dining room table. Cozy for one, tight for two. On a suggestion on the internet, we booked two roomettes across the hall from each other. Enough personal space for each of us and views out both sides of…

I am a suburban girl. In my experience, flowers are bought at a nursery, carefully placed in specific beds, watered, fertilized, and cared for. Anything else growing there is a weed. But maybe I’m wrong. Much of the country we crossed in the train seemed untouched by humans. Mountains rose near and far, some crowned…

I got home on Saturday, May 10th. I’d promised my feet at least 2 days of rest (more about that later), so I unpacked and hunkered down, planning to post on Monday the 12th. However, … I got off the train with a dry cough. Two days later it was followed by a violent cough,…

Last fall, my niece, Amy, upset about the political climate, decided she needed something to look forward to. “I’m going to take a Disney cruise,” she told her mother. “Well, don’t expect me to go with you,” Mary replied. “I hate boats.” “I’m going to ask Aunt Pam,” said Amy. Turns out Aunt Pam loves…

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”John 16:33 NIV *** I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am…

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but…

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV *** To be “in Christ” is to place one’s trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be “in Christ” is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the…

“Where, O death, is your victory?    Where, O death, is your sting?”[a]The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 15:55-57 NIV *** The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday…

[Excerpts from Pope Francis’ message, Easter Vigil, Saturday, April 19, 2025] *** “We cannot celebrate Easter without continuing to deal with the nights that dwell in our hearts and the shadows of death that so often loom over our world. Christ indeed conquered sin and destroyed death, yet in our earthly history the power of…