Finding Belonging in the Middle School Years
Few people remember middle school as an easy time. Yet for one week, I watched students from different backgrounds come together to create a community built on welcome, compassion, and belonging. It was a powerful reminder that healthy communities don't happen by accident—they are intentionally cultivated.
Music and Worship
Music. For me, music and worship go hand in hand. I started to say, “Music and church go hand in hand”. But for me, music takes the step of going to church truly into the realm of worship. And it can be at “church,” or it can be a campfire, or simply sitting and playing piano at home. It was someone from church who first suggested, when I was 8 years old, that I should take piano lessons, and offered to let me practice at her home since we couldn’t afford a piano. And I said yes.