“And God said, ‘Let there be…'” This is how creation happens in the Abrahamic faiths: not as a meticulously planned engineering project or even a work of magic, but entirely spoken into being. The Word not only communicates God’s intentions, it accomplishes them. A Word created the world. I shared this reflection yesterday at the …
Monthly Archives: October 2018
After the Burn
My husband was making homemade chicken and dumplings, and he asked me to whisk the gravy for a minute while he prepped other components of the recipe. As I whisked, I got a little overzealous and splashed some of the gravy onto my arm. I gasped aloud at how hot it was on the sensitive …