by Dorothy Greco | Sep 26, 2014 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, Friday Soul Food
I am amazed by the beauty of this season—from the majestic maples, to the tiny nasturtiums. Regardless of whether or not you consider yourself a person of faith, beauty transports us, up and out of the mundane, up and out of the pain into something bigger. Something...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Marriage & Family
“Love is an earthquake meant to relocate the center of our universe,” writes Mike Mason in his brilliant book, The Mystery of Marriage. I wish I had known that this was to be expected. During our first decade of marriage, the tectonic plates shifted and pitched me off...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Friday Soul Food
What do you want? As in, what do you really want? This is a combustible question. Jen Michel writes in Teach Us to Want, “I am a woman who has struggled long with an inordinate fear of her selfishness, a woman who has wanted a measure of certainty for finding and...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 14, 2014 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, Photography
Yes, it was...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Marriage & Family
If ezer, the Hebrew word used to describe Eve, literally means strong rescuer, being a mother and being an ezer have often felt mutually exclusive. Changing diapers, settling sibling arguments, teaching my sons to read are all important but definitely not on par with...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 9, 2014 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Christianity Today, Spirituality
There’s a curious sentence in Psalm 23 that unsettles me. David writes, “You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies.” In the same passage where the king presents God as the Good Shepherd and celebrates his provision, he throws in this radical...
