Pandemic Book Log

May 28, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

I spent the first three weeks of the pandemic watching 134 episodes of Chicago Fire, one after another. When that was over, and I needed a way to cope with the loss of my friends at Firehouse 51, I dove into books. All kinds of books. Many were wonderful. A few were, well…not. (We won’t […]

Maybe you need to Sin

May 22, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

I was up late last night reading the memoir of a woman whose husband lost his faith right around the time their second child was born. She didn’t lose her faith, although it shifted quite a bit from the on-fire, anything for Jesus, we’re destined for greatness culture in which they spent their high school […]

On a personal note…

May 18, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

We should talk about heaven. Yesterday I wrote a whole post about the upside of following Jesus without mentioning heaven, because until recently, heaven seemed more like a “bonus with purchase” add-on item than the reason I invested faith in the first place. I have crystal clear memories of how frustrated I’d get whenever a […]

The thing about God is…

May 16, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

The thing about God is…He loves you. He does. Sometimes saying something in different ways makes it easier to believe, so try this: read each of the next three lines, moving the emphasis to where the CAPS are: God LOVES me. GOD loves me. God loves ME. Not matter how you say it, there is […]

How I’m getting through

May 15, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

I made a mistake yesterday. I was in the grocery store, and I turned my cart the wrong way down one of the aisles that have now been designated THIS WAY and DO NOT ENTER to keep us safe as we procure food in quarantine. A woman blocked me with her cart and yelled at […]