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First post in a new series: Journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday July 29 2025

Pause for a moment and think about trips you've taken recently, or trips taken by people you know. I’m thinking about these:

Dave and I travelled to San Francisco to see a Mary Cassatt art exhibition. A friend of mine took a long drive and ferry voyage to attend a funeral in Campbell River, halfway up Vancouver Island in Canada. Another friend traveled halfway across the country for a family reunion. A friend and her husband spent two grueling weeks with his mother, who has advanced dementia and lives on the other side of the country. Two families at church who are dear to me travelled...

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Praying about the flow of time: Wind and water

Lynne Baab • Thursday July 10 2025

The summer I turned 13, my brother, Mark, and I took sailing lessons. We had just moved onto Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, located on a small arm of Chesapeake Bay. First, they introduced us to a lovely sailboat with two sails and a spinnaker, similar the ones in the illustration for this post. Then they put us on a Sailfish, which is basically a surfboard with a sail. As we learned to sail, we capsized a lot. That arm of Chesapeake Bay had lots of jellyfish. Ouch!

The summer I turned 17, friends of my parents asked Mark and me...

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Draw near: Asking God for maps

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 14 2023

Until I was nine years old, my dad was a pilot in the U. S. air force. For those of you who love planes, he flew P-37s and P-51s in World War 2, then cargo planes (C-47s and C-54s, also known as DC3s and DC6s) in the late 1940s and 1950s. I have vivid memories of my dad coming home from a trip. He would carefully spread out maps on the dining room table and show me where he’d been. One time, he had flown somewhere tropical – the Caribbean? Hawaii? – and he saw a black sand beach. He showed...

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Receptivity and offering: The journey

Lynne Baab • Wednesday April 20 2022

I read, then re-read, a dialog a friend posted on Facebook. The author, John Roedel, wrote a book called Hey God. Hey John. What Happens When God Writes Back.This dialog between Roedel and God reminded me how often I focus on results rather than the journey, and how deeply I want the results to be good. Right now.

As I remember Jesus' resurrection and as I try to live in in the joy that he is alive and real and with me, I want to offer to Jesus my willingness to look for his hand in the journey of my life. I...

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