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TRUST IN GOD & IN HIS POWER WITHIN US

October 24, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

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The boy pushing the wheelchair stopped at the foot of the steps, unsure of how to navigate them. “There’s only three, I can do it,” said his brother, and carefully stood up from the chair to climb them himself. “It’s a miracle! He can walk!” shouted the first boy. At which announcement, the whole cafeteria […]

WHEN THERE’S NOT ENOUGH OF YOU TO GO AROUND

July 17, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 8 Comments

Sometimes there’s not enough of me to go around. The kids need help. A loved one dies. The dryer breaks, or the car. Taxes are due and a deadline zooms and no, I can’t possibly help you today. My own needs are too great … I’m stretched as far as I can go. Sometimes there’s […]

DO YOU LOVE JESUS … OR ONLY LUV HIM?

May 30, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 8 Comments

How do you get from LUV to LOVE? How do you move from “sure, I love Jesus” to “Lord, I love you!” That’s the question Jesus asked Peter in their post-breakfast heart-to-heart on the shore of the Sea of Galilee: do you (really) love me? Jesus had risen from the dead, and he had just […]

HOW TO GROW AS A DISCIPLE WITH SCRIPTURE

January 25, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

All over the world this week, Scripture is being specially celebrated by Catholics in the first-ever “Sunday of the Word of God.” Parishes will mark the day in various ways. Many will enthrone the Bible in their churches. They will honor and pray for people who teach and translate and study and proclaim God’s word. […]

ARE YOU LISTENING? GOD WANTS TO SPEAK

August 9, 2019 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

I was five and we were vacationing on Lantau island. Today an airport crowns the Hong Kong mountain. Back then, it hosted scores of families seeking respite from the summer heat. The tiny cabins were separated from the main peak, where we took meals at a common dining room, by a “saddle”: a flat, grassy […]

STOP KEEPING SCORE! True love is not 50-50

May 19, 2019 By Sarah Christmyer 3 Comments

“Everything is 50-50 in our marriage,” a friend told me. “That’s why it works.” I cringed, not knowing how to respond. Clearly she was proud of the way she and her husband shared things equally, down to the daily chores. But 50-50 isn’t just equal; it’s divisive. By which I mean you have to divide […]

ARE YOU BEARING FRUIT?

April 29, 2018 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. … By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples” (John 15:5,8) John 15 is one of the best-loved of all the […]

HOW WILL YOU BE REMEMBERED? – Dorcas’ Life of Charity

April 22, 2018 By Sarah Christmyer 3 Comments

My great-grandma Jennie’s life is packed inside a single word: “Hallelujah!” She typed that on a thousand tiny strips of paper and tucked them into cracks and books and under dishes as she prayed. She died many years years ago—but even now, finding one of those Hallelujahs brings her back in an instant. Who was Jennie, […]

THE DISCIPLES AT THE WELL: A Fresh Reading of John 4

October 24, 2017 By Sarah Christmyer 3 Comments

Nobody ever talks about the disciples at the well in Samaria. Everyone zeroes in on the woman, and understandably so: with her many past husbands and her daily slog for water, she represents that “God-shaped vacuum” in all of us that can’t be filled by anything (or anyone!) but God. We all want what she […]

MARY & MARTHA: FINDING THAT “BETTER PART”

October 12, 2017 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

I always want to jump to Martha’s defense, when I read Jesus’ response to her complaint. Her sister has left her to do all the work, and the Lord seems to dismiss her worry. “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried,” he says. “There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part […]