Author Archives: StaceyTuttle

Windswept

The whole nation has been caught up in this George Floyd tragedy, while I confess, I have been focused more myopically on my own little world…and that’s bothered me. I just had a baby.  Well, I didn’t have a baby…my … Continue reading

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Recreating Art. Imitating Christ.

Have you seen this quarantine fun?  People are recreating famous paintings in their homes, with whatever they have.  I love it!  So creative and fun.  Some are better than others.  Some are more creative than others.  Some are more exact … Continue reading

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Dark Places

Dark places kind of have a bad rap.  We associate dark places with scary movies and evil things happening.  With loneliness and pain and isolation.  This makes sense, of course.  In the movies, bad things happen in dark and scary … Continue reading

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Declarations

I learned about the power of declarations at Kanakuk Kamp in the summers when they made us chant “Act enthusiastic and you’ll be enthusiastic!”  Of course, we only had to chant that when we weren’t feeling enthusiastic.  But it worked.  … Continue reading

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Geodes, Covid-19, and Great Gifts in Bad Packaging

I wrote an article a few years back about how sometimes great gifts come in bad packaging.  It seems appropriate for this season to revisit it. (You can read it here:  God is such a Guy!)  I know this quarantine … Continue reading

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Bringing our Lunchables to the Covid-Table

Most of us are familiar of the miraculous story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 (more if you count the women and children) with some boy’s 2 little fish and 5 loaves of bread, basically a Hebrew lunchable.  Similarly, there’s a … Continue reading

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Ant-Man and The Wasp – Movie Discussion

I’ve heard it said that if you want to reach your dreams, help others reach theirs. Similarly, Jesus that whoever wanted to save their life would lose it, but whoever would lose it for His sake, would find it (Matthew … Continue reading

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Volunteers for Slavery?

I read this great challenge in Voice of the Martyrs’ newsletter (2018 photo issue). Among my heroes are two Moravian missionaries who 300 years ago attempted to sell themselves into slavery because it was the only way they could reach … Continue reading

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Avengers: Infinity War – Movie Discussion

**Spoiler Alert** In the Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is being threatened by a great evil, Thanos. Thanos argues that he is trying to save the universe—that overpopulation threatens to consume all the resources and therefore the only way to … Continue reading

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Life of the Party – Movie Discussion

When Deanna’s husband leaves her, she goes back to college to finish her degree…alongside her daughter, Maddie. Here are some of the positives and negatives of the movie, and questions for discussion. Maturity is more than the number of your … Continue reading

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