Pentecost! Come Holy Spirit Home Decor

Our Fireplace Mantel 

as 

Altar/Theme Park

WooHoo Holy Spirit!

And do revisit this favorite Pentecost post of mine from 2010.

Working on the (Other) Side (Yard): Gardening Department

Making my way across our driveway.*

Transplanted the yarrow and artemisia.

Fun continues with transplanting a
hosta from yet another section.

Closeup!

 






* Next door neighbor has conceded neither he nor his wife care about gardening and I'm welcome to work my over to their side of the driveway!

Beginning Continued: Gardening Department

Blessings planted so far...
Working the other side 
of the mini-land this weekend.

Not exactly "before" but not "after." 

Coming along nicely.

Habemus Book Cover! The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News In New Ways

The Social Media Gospel: 

Sharing the Good News in New Ways

Foreword by The Rev. David L. Hansen (@Rev_David)

Soon and Very Soon!

July 2013

from Liturgical Press

This fabulous cover designed by Stefan Killen.
Grateful to Liturgical Press for welcoming
my creative direction and ongoing input.

Beginning Again: Gardening Department

Blessed work in progress...

There was even more stuff stuffed in here.

Cleaned almost everything out the moment I could.

Thank me for not showing you the before this before.

I'm Back From My Unintended Hiatus

We were discussing how things were going and how I'd felt during the month between acupuncture sessions. Allyson had been on maternity leave.

Me? I'd been on a self-imposed merry-go-round of billable work; reviewing galleys for my new book; reading galleys of friends' books; contemplating the mess of a front yard inherited from previous owners of this townhouse; recruiting for the #chsocm chat moderator team and scheduling that through July.

Add the predictable, inevitable fibromyalgia flare-up that knocked me down, out, and supine on the couch whenever I could stagger there from bed. This, in turn, led to binge-viewing all five seasons of "Mad Men," sometimes until 2:30 AM.

No blogging. No writing. Barely any praying beyond, "God, let me know and do your will" and then being too distracted or otherwise out-of-it to read the signs.

I trotted all this out to Allyson before, during, and after she was checking my pulses. "You know," she said, "you could schedule a hiatus instead of collapsing into one."

Wow, what a concept!

Alleluia! No Joke.

Resurrection Sunday & Tangential Exegesis for Easter

He is not here, 
but is risen! 

Luke 24:6

For our sake 

and for that of

yellow peeps.