a piece i wrote for communion at my church. _____ when i think about communion and the scene that we find it in scripture — in every account in the gospels and paul’s account in 1 corinthians 11… we see jesus taking communion with his disciples around the table. i love this visual we get, [...]
wow. it's been awhile. like years. no better time to resurrect this thing than with some thoughts on my favorite time of the year. that's right, advent season. (i'm not sure where my love affair with advent began, but we've been hot and heavy for a few years now and i don't see it stopping [...]
today is the day that families come together. they attended church in dressier clothes than usual, typically in a pastel shade, and remember what Christ has done. how He defeated death and made us alive in Him. how He defied a lot of odds and fulfilled a lot of promises that day. its an astonishing [...]
My little sister Hannah is 5 months pregnant right now with my already adorable niece, lyla ray. When we first found out she was pregnant, we were obviously thrilled and after we remotely came down from baby high, we all dove head first into the name game. And that’s always an interesting conversation. Not because you’re coming [...]
George Saunders recently delivered a really wonderful graduation speech at Syracuse University this year, and it was so great the New York Times recently published it. His speech had this wonderful balance or wisdom, intellect, and humor and what was most intriguing was how it centered around this one theme :: KINDNESS :: You can read the speech [...]
I think we can all agree to experiencing feelings, at multiple points in life, where we’ve thought “this is definitely not how I pictured things panning out." I’ll be turning 26 in a little over a month. *selah* I'm inching in, ever so fiercely, as someone you’d describe as “that girl with the brown hair [...]
I can easily forget that people are valuable and I don’t just mean in a relational way, although I can forget that too. I'm talking about real meaningful value:: the gold and worth that are hidden in the hearts and personalities of everyone walking around us. The issue is that our propensity and natural bent [...]
30 years ago… Michael Jackson and The Police dominated the Billboard charts with their hits “billie jean” and “every breath you take.” M*A*S*H ended its 11year streak where its finale became the highest rated episode in TV history. Microsoft Word was first released. McDonald’s introduced the McNugget. Return of the Jedi, Risky Business, National Lampoon’s [...]
Gratitude is the main character trait of those with quality lives. Nothing is more attractive, more inspiring, and more contagious than those that live a life of thanks. Just reading that sentence im sure you can already think of several people in your life that fit such a description. They’re the people with the most [...]
We sat around the living room, just the five of us. Feeling a touch of anxiety, but more so, resorting back to those comedic jokes you use to lighten the mood when you know that vulnerability is knocking at your door. We talked about being discontent and what that means to us, what it looks like, and [...]
sarah j baker 