Living Simply

Brewed

If coffee is a good enough catalyst for people to form bonds and become vulnerable with one another, shouldn’t mutual faith in Jesus be an even better one?

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Sunday supper

The aromas were delectable, but more than the food I remember the satisfaction that came from the joy of loved ones gathered around the dinner table.

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Simple Joys

As we near the end of winter, take time to consider the things that fill your space. If you were moving tomorrow, what would you take with you?

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Broken Wholeness

They were quite the pair, the cook and her kitchen, both a little broken, both temporarily limited, and neither as new as they used to be.

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The gift of sustaining love

Interstate 65 cuts through a massive wind farm in Northern Indiana. Driving through it from my Illinois home to the Happy Corner Church of the Brethren in Clayton, Ohio, last week, I got to thinking about a few different kinds of energy. For human beings, energy comes from many places—rest, work, space, closeness—and we all