Musings on Life and Ministry
Seven years ago, I started sarainrealife as an experiment in living generously. I stopped eating out, cut my grocery fund in half and lived on rice and beans type basics for one year, giving away the other half of grocery money and the funds I would have spent on eating out, to different charities each […]
MoreFrom yesterday’s speaking engagement at Central Baptist Church. Because I have “speaking engagements” now :). Taken from Psalm 71. When I was in 1st grade, while my dad was coming to get me from school, a little boy ran out in front of him to get his soccer ball. My dad was able to stop […]
MoreAsh Wednesday convicted me this year, as it does each year, that there are things in my life that separate me from God. Last year, I didn’t “give up” anything for Lent, rather, I added a daily practice of praying in color to my life, in an effort to increase my connection to God and […]
MoreRemember, you are dust and to dust you shall return. These are the words most commonly spoken at Ash Wednesday services, services of reflection and turning inward; opportunities for us to look upon our lives as finite gifts which will end one day, and to remember the dust from whence we came and to which […]
MoreToday’s sermon from John 1: 43 – 51 … This weekend, I had the remarkable experience of watching The Greatest Showman, based on the story of P.T. Barnum. The movie drew me in from the beginning, and the unfolding story on the screen had all the hallmarks of a powerful narrative: loss, love, hardship, and […]
MoreTomorrow’s sermon from Isaiah 60:1-6 I’ve decided to read more this year, and have started the new year off with reading cooking memoirs, in hopes that in the stories the world’s best chefs have written for me about their lives spent cooking and learning, that I, too, will learn something and become a better, more […]
MoreI’m trying my hand at fiction this year. As they say, art mimics life so this first foray into the fictitious is loosely based on my life at the moment. This is part of chapter one, maybe. … Charlie has never been inside a laundromat, but I’m a seasoned pro. In fact, the laundromat is, […]
MoreI made this to start off the new year on a warm, spicy note. 1 lb of ground beef, ground and drained Place in crock pot and add: 3 Tbs garlic powder, 1 small can of tomato paste , 1 large can of tomato sauce, and 2 Tbs honey. Stir. Add 3 cans of black […]
MoreI haven’t really been able to find better language than “best and worst” to reflect over my year, but this has been a tradition on the blog for about 4 years now. So, in keeping with my yearly tradition of remembering with thanks, here is a capsule- like glimpse of my 2017. The things I […]
MoreThis is today’s sermon on Luke 2:22-40 Just as Frodo Baggins, the Hobbit, was setting about the business of stepping outside his front door, the text chime on my phone dinged. “We’re headed to the hospital,” my brother-in-law had written. I closed my book and threw it into my purse, miraculously found my keys in […]
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