Your Song is Playing. (Psalm 45)
"The world is weighty with suffering, and the shadows push hard into every corner. Strength is so easily melted like candle wax in this present time, even for the...
This is Every-Day Jesus.
This is for you, love. Because I want you to know Jesus. The Christ. The God-Man who defies logic and yet makes sense of it all. I'm not sharing...
Would I Dwell with My Enemies.
I wonder if I would be so willing to dwell with those have found pleasure in my harm or security in my enslavement, seeing them as worthy of honor...
The Unlikely Friendship of Grief.
I used to think grief was something to get over or to get through. I've learned it's certainly not a thing to cling tightly to for too long, as...
I Made a Playlist.
The songs are passed back and forth via text - Spotify links or YouTube clips - each one a glimpse into the very insides of who we are at...
Words Will Not Scatter. (Jeremiah 29)
In 2012, I wrote about freedom and values and pro-this and anti-that and the war of words that rages in political years, and the growing ache inside of me...
Autographed by God (Ephesians 2)
Remember the days of talking big and fearing bigger - of staking claims on land that crumbled like dust. We thought we knew it all then, thought if we...
Champagne and Confetti. (Ephesians 1)
Rewind now to before the beginning, before life and birth and striving and falling and paradise and that Voice speaking "it is good." Before anything began, the conversation included...
Sing Like Soaking Rains.
Have you heard the sound before? I bet you have.
The sound is like rain - like the soaking rains that come down gently and do no harm and...
May I Be So Bold. (#oneword365)
Yes, I'm back.
It's a quiet return to this place, with a story about my #oneword365. I believe with all my heart that the words inspired by 1 Chronicles...
Today I am ThankFULL – Eight Stories.
The stories of gratitude started with a visit to a feed store in a small Texas town and the discovery of a castle next door. It was actually an...
We are Buried with Our Enemies.
And behind the walls of the basilica – hidden in the darkness of the mountain - are buried 40,000 who fought in the Spanish civil war.
Not by name.
Not by...
