by Sally Metzger | Dec 22, 2022 | Christmas, Prayer, Raining Grace
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. In preparation for a new year to breathe, live, and enjoy another spin around the sun, we might want to ask Christ for the gift of virtue as our Christmas present in 2022. We’ll need virtue to live as fully as possible in the coming...
by Sally Metzger | Dec 2, 2022 | Divine Encounter, God’s Grace, Prayer, Raining Grace
Divine Encounter |I Struggled to Give My Son a Faith I Didn’t Have| I flew out of bed at the sound of Brian’s chilling screams. My five-year-old sometimes had bad dreams, but this was different. The air in his room seemed charged with danger and dread. “It’s...
by Sally Metzger | Oct 12, 2022 | Christ’s Humanity, Raining Grace, Raising Kids in Christ
|Experiencing Christ’s Humanity| As a child, I’d pull myself up and stand on the piano bench to gaze at baby Jesus. He slept soundly, stuck to His bed. I knew my mom was an artist when she cut stray branches from our Christmas tree and propped them up behind the...
by Sally Metzger | Jun 22, 2022 | Healing, Raining Grace
My prayer (pictured above) asks for our healing—body, mind, and spirit. How can our world, still reeling from Covid, war, and mounting divisiveness, be healed? We need grace, Divine intervention, if you will. We also need to see. To see the possibility of a better...
by Sally Metzger | Apr 23, 2022 | God’s Presence, Raining Grace
Add Public Speaking to Your Comfort Zone |Add Public Speaking to Your Comfort Zone| It was my first-year teaching theology at the school, and I’d foolishly agreed to speak to the 900+ educational community at a prayer service. What was I thinking when I said yes?...
