by Jeanni Shepherd | May 28, 2021 | When Change Comes
They file into the room with some trepidation, nervously excited and with surreal awareness that from this point the future begins. Graduation day, so long awaited, feels mixed – a goodbye to “before,” with all its trials and triumphs – and an open door to “next”…not...
by Jeanni Shepherd | May 25, 2021 | When Change Comes
With the whiff of “new” comes the consideration of a new dream, a new possibility, a new horizon. We have a fresh opportunity to come into a different understanding of what God’s dream in this next stretch of road might be. I love this poem that takes us into...
by Jeanni Shepherd | May 21, 2021 | When Change Comes
As I’ve been meditating on the Passion Week, I’m struck once again at the process of it all. Jesus spends 3 years unveiling Himself to the disciples. He tells them…shows them…lives in front of them this message that He’s not who they think He is, and His way is not...
by Jeanni Shepherd | May 18, 2021 | When Change Comes
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about my reflexive actions. Too often I respond to situations or conversations with assumptions that have been true in the past, but in changing times, may not be as true now. These assumptions are so ingrained that I may not even...
by Jeanni Shepherd | May 14, 2021 | When Change Comes
Sun shining the past several days has felt so good. Warmer air, the smell of grass, birds calling to each other…change is literally in the air…change of all kinds. How tempting it is to skip through the change process to answers and activities we love. Often the work...
