It all started with Sharpies. When my kids were toddlers, I wanted to find a sensory way to engage them in Holy Week. So on Maundy Thursday, while I retold the story of Jesus washing his friends’ feet, we used a Sharpie to trace their bare feet and hands and the rim of a cereal bowl onto a piece of paper. Then they colored the intersecting lines with oil pastel and “washed their feet” by watercoloring over the whole thing. (Sharpie + oil pastel + watercolor is my all-time fav

Dear Incarnation friends So, how’s it going? One week into this new world, so many new routines, new skills, new patterns of work, new ways to connect, new emphasis on personal disciples, and so much more ‘giving up’ then we expected this Lent! This morning as I prayed, this verse came to mind: For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 I am so hoping that in th