Hey Hope Friends,I am sucker for a good house renovation - especially when I can watch it on TV and it's someone else's time, money, and mess! Friends in Nashville were on one of those shows, and I got to walk through their house before the episode aired - it really was remarkable and beautiful. What hooks me is the potential seen in very run down properties, and then watching it restored to its f...

Dear Hope Friends and Family,All day yesterday I felt like I was missing something, there was so much time to just be with family! Clergy are used to one-day weekends which part of why Thanksgiving weekend is so fun! Ryan and I took the kids to see Moana 2 in a packed theater. (It was fine, but does not have the music of Lin Manuel Miranda and is not necessary viewing if you don't have a young kid...