by kateberkey | Apr 19, 2022 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stumbling to Jesus
I am a doer and a worker who comes from a long line of doers and workers. We are pioneers and pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps kind of people who value long days and even longer hours. My ancestors are farmers and hustlers in their own right—providing for large...
by kateberkey | Feb 18, 2022 | Stories and Other Things From Chicago
I live in this beautifully diverse and densely populated neighborhood on the north side of Chicago where the government resettles refugees and immigrants make their new home. Chicagoans know it as Little India. When you walk the streets of my neighborhood, you don’t...
by kateberkey | Oct 15, 2021 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stories and Other Things From Chicago
Most of the time, I am a fish out of water in this neighborhood. I am the minority in a city and country where I am the majority. I speak one language in a place where most of my neighbors have at least two or three or six on their list. Often, I step into people’s...
by kateberkey | Nov 27, 2019 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary
For about two years I lived in this absolutely beautiful, rustic home in a town that is the epitome of small-town America. For most of those years, I was one of three in the house until we finally convinced a fourth girl to move into the downstairs bedroom. To prove...
by kateberkey | Nov 7, 2019 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stumbling to Jesus
There are two types of people in this world—those who keep the front of their fridge clean and organized, and those with an obnoxious amount of photos and little-kid drawings and reminders cluttering the front, both sides, and maybe even a bit of the back. ...
