Thank you for joining me through this Holy Week journey.  I'm "unplugged" for the week but have printed out these Scriptures, thoughts, and prayers to use during my own preparation for our Good Friday service and celebration on Resurrection Sunday. Today we begin "Preparing Your Heart" by considering our need for examination. Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. ~ Lamentations 3:40 This sort of examination is difficult ... for we are forced to evaluate our ... [Read More]

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." ~ Alan Cohen I'm not a big fan of change. Seriously ... I really like same, constant. But the winds of change are upon me.  I can feel the breeze blowing and it seems to be picking up speed. It's exciting. New ... [Read More]

My heart breaks over the situation in Haiti ... breaks. I had been wondering how to talk to Casiday about it and what to say. Yesterday, on the way to dance, I asked her if they'd talked about the earthquake in Haiti at school. She said they hadn't. So I explained there has been a terrible tragedy and many lives have been lost and many people were left with nothing. She was quiet ... contemplating that information, trying to take it all in. She climbed out of the truck at the studio. Scott ... [Read More]