Love, Love, Love!!!

  Kate’s House Fellowship Saturation Weekend We were blessed to spend the past weekend bathing in love. Friday night, Rich and I had a dinner date. Upon our return home, we watched the video from our 2007 wedding, which we had just received that day. What a joy it was to relive those special memories. […]


Walk Through Fire

The Santiago Fire, October, 2007 A Great Big Faith Yesterday I read again the story of  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who during the Jews’ time of exile to Babylon were thrown into the fiery furnace by an outraged King Nebuchadnezzar for refusing to worship a giant gold idol he had erected. It’s an amazing tale […]


The Physics Lesson

Cadence and Papa Rich practicing physics Limits of Understanding Though I was a good student, physics defied me. My brain didn’t tune in to the distinction between mass and weight; my eyes glazed over when I tried to comprehend formulas full of variables. My sister, an engineer, sent me her Schaum’s Outline. My dad, another engineer, tried […]


All Fall Down

Is Grace in My Wake? Last night someone I admire as a spiritual mentor made a “joke” based on an  ugly racial stereotype. It would have been an “open mic” moment, wherein the celebrity/politician/media whipping boy of the week is publicly captured making a comment meant to be kept private, except: 1. We’re not famous, so no microphones follow us around. […]


Lending a Hand

A pony trailer in my neighborhood A Servant’s Heart Several years ago my mom and I were creeping along in heavy traffic on I-15 near Temecula. We were going to visit my sister when we spotted trouble ahead on the shoulder of the freeway. A truck pulling a horse trailer had stopped there; its driver, a young man, stood next […]