Stories
about The Writing Life
I remembered back to a sermon I had preached on a misfit Sunday morning at an apartment complex where some of the most genuine and fragile folks I know...
“God redeems time.”
I’ve said those three words hundreds of times in conversations, written them in notes, spoken them from stages in all sorts of places. I even use them...
Hi there. This is a little something for you - something I've been working on for a bit with precious friend who is finding just the right image to...
“Wait, I know you,” a stranger said as her eyes gleamed a familiar approval. “You’re Ian’s mom.” I smiled and peeked back at Ian and Gina, and then looked...
This is for you, love, when you are in the waiting season. Let the words and prayer remind you of just how much your Redeemer is over the moon...
A little something for you, because the noise of the crowds all around us keeps growing louder, and if we are not careful we can fall far into the...
"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 a love note to you, dear ones - you who feel scattered like leaves in a furious wind. This is a message to remind you that you...
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 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...
We walk into understanding. We walk into wholeness. He completes every small thing that concerns us as we walk. Eyes become clear and legs become strong. Hands become eager...
My friend Wycliffe wrote, "Proverbs 14:1. That was our sermon today." And so I journeyed there - to the scriptures, to meditate and see what God might have for...