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Journey and attention

Lynne Baab • Tuesday September 16 2025

I invite you to ponder this statement: “The most important judgments in life are between . . .” How would you complete that sentence? Right and wrong? Good and evil? Kind and unkind? Loving and selfish?

I found an intriguing statement about important judgments in an unexpected place: a letter to the editor in Christianity Today. The writer of the letter, Anthony Hess, was responding to an article about monasticism. He writes:

“Fundamentalism assumes that the most important judgments in life are between good and evil. Monasticism reveals that the most important decisions are between attention and distraction.” [1]

I’m not sure I would...

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Journey with God the Migrant

Lynne Baab • Tuesday September 9 2025

Journey with God the Migrant

God doesn’t let King David build a temple in part because God wants to stay with the people of Israel, on the move. God speaks to David through the prophet Nathan: “I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle” (2 Samuel 7:6), referring to God’s presence with Israel during the time of the patriarchs, the captivity in Egypt, and the exodus from Egypt. At Christmas, we sing about one of Jesus’s names—Immanuel, God with us. God's presence all around us, beautifully expressed in Celtic poetry, is so comforting: God beside us to support us, within us to empower...

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Journey on Creator’s good road

Lynne Baab • Thursday September 4 2025

Journey on Creator’s good road

“The time has now come. Creator’s good road is right in front of you. It is time to return to the right ways of thinking and doing! Put your trust in this good story I am bringing to you.” —Jesus’s words to the crowd in Mark 1:15

“Come! Walk the road with me.” —Jesus’s words to Simon and Andrew in Mark 1:17

“Right then and there they dropped their nets and began to walk the road with him.” —Simon and Andrew’s response in Mark 1:18  

These quotations come from a remarkable translation of the New Testament, The First Nations Version, published in 2021 by InterVarsity Press....

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Journey and wandering

Lynne Baab • Thursday August 28 2025

Journey and wandering

Today I invite you to think about wandering. Here’s something my artist husband Dave might say about a Seattle neighborhood with gorgeous old houses: “I wandered around Capitol Hill looking for a Victorian house I wanted to paint.” Here’s something I might say about our trip to London 14 years ago: “I loved wandering around looking at all that gorgeous architecture.” Those statements reflect one dictionary definition for wander: “to walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way.” 

In his book Long Wandering Prayer, David Hansen argues that walking aids prayer. He recommends leisurely and casual walks where our minds...

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