Fourth of July festivities were postponed in Duluth due to the foggy, rainy weather. In so many ways this was fitting after the news of the last few weeks. We are a nation fogged in by Supreme Court decisions, January 6th hearings and mass shootings. It feels like we have lost our way. Instead of…
“Consider the lilies of the field . . . “ Matthew 6:28Today is my grandmother’s birthday. I find myself thinking of her as I water our small gardens alongside our house. I filled our gardens with purple bachelor buttons because that was a flower my grandmother always grew in hers. Bachelor buttons are a perennial…
My husband Tim and I walk most mornings. There is such beauty in the quiet of the dawn. Walking together early before work there is time to listen to one another. There is space to remember what a precious gift each day is. What a strange and wondrous path we have shared with one another. Our youngest…
“Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said, “and do not hinder them . . .” — Matthew 19:14 Most mornings I hold the doors of Lincoln Park Middle School open for the kids as they come off their buses. As a para- professional, part of my job is to meet the kids from…
On Sunday evening I watched the lunar eclipse from our attic window. I was isolating up in our attic because I had Covid. Yes, I had succumbed to the virus and was hoping my husband wouldn’t. The attic was a safe space that gave me a place to read, to sleep and to watch the moon….
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, the birds of the air, and they will tell you;8 ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you, and the fish of the sea will declare to you.9 Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?10 In his hand is the life of every…
I part the out thrusting branchesand come in beneaththe blessed and the blessing trees.Though I am silentthere is singing around me.Though I am darkthere is vision around me.Though I am heavythere is flight around me. Wendell Berry, Woods Over the school break we got away and walked among the trees. Tim and I traveled to…
Oh river, rolling river Sing me your dream Oh river, rolling river Sing me your dream. Sara Thomsen Last Saturday we hiked up to the Fifth Falls at Gooseberry State Park. After leaving the shoveled trail that led to the main waterfall, we only saw one other pair of hikers. I was glad we…
Wednesday’s snow day for the Duluth Public Schools was such a bummer. The snow day canceled the field trip for the Lincoln Park eighth grade music students to see “Footloose” in the Twin Cities. I was going along with two of the students I work with as a paraprofessional. This trip was a big deal,…
“but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles,they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 I was recently invited by the 150th anniversary committee of my former congregation to write up some of the stories of the matriarchs and patriarchs of…