All around people are taking steps away from and towards. Graduates who are both exhilarated with being “done!”  Fully aware (maybe) that next steps mean change whether it is a summer job, college, a gap year, looking for a job, travel, but probably moving of some kind. Maybe moving back in … Read More

It was a crazy fun week! Spirit Week at our elementary school calls for a daily dress up and show your school spirit. Monday it was PJ day. Some literally rolled out of bed and came to school! Tuesday was “dress like a teacher” day. Fun versions of our teachers walked around all day and some … Read More

Can I tell you what a humbling, mostly overwhelming feeling it is to have the privilege of visiting with you on Sweet Mondays? Praying always that the right words will come to encourage our Sweet community to laugh, lean in, listen well or love a little deeper. The odds are great that you and I … Read More

Today my firstborn turned 30. And I’m just not sure how that happened! Sweet newborn smells, tufts of red hair, squeaky crying, and wrapping her in the hospital blanket still seems unmistakably recent to her parents. I remember my mom arriving and helping me breathe deeply through my new mom … Read More

Are you like me and feeling the fatigue of storms? This fatigue happens to us all even if the storm is not directly affecting you. In the last month, our Hawaiian island chain has had two hurricane watches, preparations, warnings, some getting the worst and others of us being bypassed. Some of … Read More

What a phrase! What first came to your mind when you read that? A gorilla in a tutu?  A big question mark? This is the name of a book recently sent by a fellow guerrilla of grace. Author Ted Loder writes in his book Guerrillas of Grace that “guerrillas are engaged in the battle to reclaim … Read More