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What I learned from the past year's blog posts

Lynne Baab • Tuesday July 22 2025

Eleven months and three weeks ago, on July 30, 2024, I wrote the first post in this series about the flow of time. I started this year-long series in the middle of the church season of Ordinary Time. I wanted to write about the ways God’s presence through the Holy Spirit comforts, sustains, guides, and empowers us in our daily, ordinary days.

In this last post in the series, I’ll describe what I learned from writing the series.

1. There are A LOT of special days and holidays. If you do an online search for “holidays in July,” you’ll get numerous websites with...

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Praying about the flow of time: Paying attention to our stories

Lynne Baab • Wednesday July 16 2025

“People in fact change by the offer of new models, images, and pictures of how the pieces of life fit together. Transformation is the slow, steady process of inviting each other into a counterstory about God, world, neighbor, and self. This slow, steady process has as counterpoint the subversive process of unlearning and disengaging from a story we find no longer to be credible or adequate.” —Walter Brueggemann, Texts Under Negotiation

In this church season of Ordinary Time, I’m encouraging you, my beloved readers, to think about the daily, ordinary Christian journey. One aspect of our daily life of discipleship is to be...

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Praying about the flow of time: Wind and water

Lynne Baab • Thursday July 10 2025

The summer I turned 13, my brother, Mark, and I took sailing lessons. We had just moved onto Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, located on a small arm of Chesapeake Bay. First, they introduced us to a lovely sailboat with two sails and a spinnaker, similar the ones in the illustration for this post. Then they put us on a Sailfish, which is basically a surfboard with a sail. As we learned to sail, we capsized a lot. That arm of Chesapeake Bay had lots of jellyfish. Ouch!

The summer I turned 17, friends of my parents asked Mark and me...

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Praying about the flow of time: Praying for our ordinary lives

Lynne Baab • Tuesday July 8 2025

We recently had house guests from New Zealand, including a darling four-year-old girl. At one meal, she told us about a fall that required a trip to urgent care. “My chin split open!” she said cheerfully. “There was blood everywhere!”

Her facial expression and tone of voice contrasted with her words, so I said, “That sounds scary. Were you scared?”

She replied in the same tone of voice, “Mummy was with me.”

Sadly, we have far too many moments of fear in our everyday lives. I’m sure you can remember moments when your awareness of God’s presence with you gave you some measure of...

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