MomminginMinistry

*Cute picture is of my precious boys doing what was in their control...visiting the office of Sen. John McCain in 2015 to tell his staffers all about pediatric melanoma. Back when we were kinder to each other.  A little over 2,880 minutes ago I got a last-minute call to sub in 8th grade math for half a day. It was the kids' first day with metal detectors and they were really made that they felt criminalized for bringing Bath and Body Works fragranced body mist with them. Sorry, I should explain. The machine mistakes it for vape. The machine thinks that "Twisted Mango Lagoon" is for vaping and the girls appalled. I tried to talk them down but I got a little frazzled by everyone coming in after I'd normally take attendance and, well, I forgot to do their homeroom socio-emotional learning assignment. Four hundred and twenty minutes later I was backstage at the school talent show dress rehearsal pinning the straps on lederhosen and sending boys back to the dressing room b...

Harper Lee once said, "You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them." I love that in Christianity we believe that we have a God who wanted to be able to say, "I walked in your shoes." He experienced poverty. He spent the first several years of his life as a political refugee. He experienced grief, and hunger and fatigue just like us. And when walking in our shoes wasn't enough, he got down on his hands and knees, took our shoes off and washed our dusty feet. There are so many pairs of shoes that I don't think I'll ever truly be able to walk in. For example, I have never feared for my life solely due to my religious or political affiliation. Sure I've been laughed at. I've been annoyed or embarrassed by the way my country's political representatives put their foot in their mouth often, or I've had serious concerns about their plans for our education or health care system. But, I have never ...