by Laurie Short | Dec 20, 2017 | Faith, Reframe your life
On Saturday at 7 am, we were abruptly evacuated. The Thomas fire took a windy turn, and as it came careening down the hills of Santa Barbara, 12,000 people were told to pack up and get out. It’s one of those scenes you rehearse (but never totally prepare for) in your...
by Laurie Short | Dec 14, 2017 | Faith, thomas fire, When Changing Nothing Changes Everythng
This has been a week of coming close. It’s the Advent season, and many of you are aware that we have a huge fire going on (currently 238,000 acres), so we’ve lived the last 10 days coming very close to being evacuated. Most of our neighbors have left...