eleven:eleven

It is what I was born for: to look, to listen inside this soft world — to instruct myself over and over. — mary oliver There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a…

Everyone has a story to tell of a moment or place or person that mediated the presence of wonder and grace. This Sunday, November 24, at eleven:eleven, singer/songwriter Elizabeth Wills will join us for our first-ever, Open Mic Story Arc Sunday!

We see things differently. That’s the truth of it. To some, a gold ring is just a ring, a formal symbol of a commitment to fidelity and marriage. To another, it’s a symbol of abiding love and unity that holds all things together, an inheritance of a history of love.

This Sunday in eleven:eleven, we will continue our series, Imagine That! As we think together about prophetic imagination and the power of re-framing our ways of seeing things — and the stories we tell ourselves.

This Sunday, November 3, we will meet back at the Historic 512 (in the CTL) as we welcome special guest singer/songwriter Hannah Kirby!

This is a one-time special event (unless we are all here 90 years from now), and we hope to see you there!

Linda and I recently had the privilege of caring for our granddaughters for about 5 days. It was so much fun — and exhausting. We did a lot of the grandparent things you might do with your kids: go to the zoo, the park, the museum.

I once heard someone describe their worry as a persistent, gnawing at their very existence — their life feeling consumed, piece by piece and moment by moment, till their life was not theirs . . .

Over the weekend, I stumbled on to a Book Festival in a nearby town featuring authors and illustrators of every genre from all over the US. So I sat in on one session of Middle-Grade authors. And I noticed a common theme — first drafts.