Walking down the street in Truckee California on a warm Thursday evening during Farmer’s Market, Michael and I came across this unique offering.
“I can’t get away with anything.!”
That is what our daughter Jenna would say growing up. She knew that if she did something she wasn’t supposed to do she would absolutely get caught.
It wasn’t a matter of if, just when.
Every once in a while, a song comes along with a lyric that moves you deeply.
It winds its way into your heart and soul. It seeps in and saturates.
It changes you.
Last week I had the privilege of having coffee with a woman in my church who reached out to me so she could ask my advice on parenting.
Nice.
Unusual. But nice.
As a full-time working mom of an only child, let's just say that the moms who have asked for my advice have been few and far between.
Have you ever looked at a well-worn passage of the Bible and suddenly wondered if the prevailing teaching you have heard is actually right? Something gnaws at you. A sense that maybe there is another story that hasn’t been told.
I recently encountered this gnawing sense while working on a sermon I preached on March 10th. My passage was John 4, the well-known story of the Woman at the Well. The Samaritan woman.
