Placing Life and Death (the year of gathering)
Help me rightly place life by rightly placing death. The prayer feels upside down, but it’s been reverberating in my soul since I met Harriet. She rests quietly beneath...
Love your enemies. (the year of gathering)
I honestly thought there might be an asterisk somewhere in the pages—a subtle footnote or editor’s revision tucked in the margins. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love...
Love Championed (the year of gathering)
I think about the moment in Genesis, the first chapter. God, in His divinely creative glory, crafting man and woman and smiling and saying, “This is so very good.”...
My Great Affection for You (the year of gathering)
I often say I’m an open book. I know a lot of us do. But there are things I don’t share as much in social spaces like this. They...
gather our thoughts (the year of gathering)
Right now, I’m thankful for a computer with a delete key. Because if this was written on paper, you’d not be able to see the words for all the...
Assemble Here (the year of gathering)
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together today to get through this thing called life.” Yes, when I think of the word “gather,” my mind immediately goes to Prince...
2021, this will be our word–we will gather
It’s likely not proper etiquette to begin the year by confessing your quiet misgivings of its arrival. But one thing I know for sure is this: hope and love...
