celebrate: Red Letter Challenge

Birthday parties. Graduations. Weddings. We are born to celebrate, to mark significant events, to rejoice and be glad. By why do we only tend to focus on the “big moments?” There is as much cause to celebrate a sunrise as there is a new job. We can celebrate offering patience to a difficult person as […]

fasting: Red Letter Challenge

Prayer…cool. Worship…definitely. Read scripture…on it. Fasting…er, um. That’s moving quickly, right? Seriously, of all the practices meant to help us grow closer to God and others, fasting is the one I have had the least experience with and the most difficulty incorporating into a regular rhythm. This is not a good thing. Fasting is a […]

sing: Red Letter Challenge

In fourth grade I made the school choir. You would have thought I won the lottery. In my memory, we stayed after school and sang soaring songs such as “Let’s Go Fly A Kite!” It was a heady time for sure. Truth be told, I’m not sure anyone was actually turned away from joining. I […]