Susanna Bertelsen

by Susanna Bertelsen Like many people, I enjoy sending and receiving Christmas letters. Unfortunately, I am usually late with the mailings.  This year, however, I started the process early… the first week of Advent! It had been my 2018 New Year’s resolution…to send...

by Susanna Bertelsen The first weekend of October my husband and I drove up to Grand Marais hoping to catch the colors of the season.  On the ride north on Highway 61 we passed many golden aspen and birch amidst the deep green spruce and other evergreen trees along...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]by Susanna Bertelsen “What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of                What the world needs now is love, sweet love No, not just for some, but for everyone.” Where is...

by Susanna Bertelsen Easter Season 2018 welcomes Spring upon the Minnesota landscape with new life and fresh possibilities for renewal.  These colorful daises in full bloom remind me of the energy that Easter promises and the fire of Pentecost’s Spirit.  Today, I...

by Susanna Bertelsen On October 31, 2016, Pope Francis and Bishop Dr. Munib Yunan, president of the Lutheran World Federation, signed the joint declaration at the Cathedral in Lund, Sweden for continued work toward unity between the churches. Watching this during a...

By Susanna Bertelsen Decades ago, in the 1980’s, busy with our three school aged children in our Minnetonka home, I received a frantic call from my mother in Ohio, who announced over the phone, “Your brother has Schizophrenia. And they put him on Stelazine.”  Taking a...

By Susanna Bertelsen In late July, 2017, my husband and I went to Germany to visit the “Lutherstadts” or the historical sites of Martin Luther and the Reformation.  We saw Eiseleben, his birth and childhood home, where he grew up in a family of affluence, (his father...

By Susanna Bertelsen June 1, 2017 will be remembered by me as an extraordinary day.  I attended my first staff meeting at Loyola Spirituality Center in St. Paul with a warm welcome into their vibrant community of Spiritual Directors.  Later in the afternoon that same...