Picking up a pen can be painful if you use it to write down your heart. I do – I journal. And so I had to write. The other night I was with a few friends and you know how conversation can get tricky when you talk about knowing God. Or Him knowing us. Interesting how that topic comes up when things aren’t going well – we … [Read more...]
Pastel Darkness
It’s Friday and we want Sunday. . . A two-sided braided path leads to Easter. There's the prettier one - the easier one we take while rushing to the resurrection where we miss reflecting on the one stained with blood tracks and flesh-ripping thorns. The passing of my mom during holy week has always added to the sorrow. And … [Read more...]
Hope
One good thing about shoveling snow is the surprise of uncovering flowers along the way. It exposes hope . . . And the amazing thing about nature is how God gives the ability to recreate. I count on it when I look down-deep beneath the drifts and know there is life in the cold earth just waiting to rise again. … [Read more...]
Well of Meeting
What do we do with a lifetime of bad choices – simply quit and believe this is it? It doesn’t have to be the ending to our story. It wasn’t the ending for an unnamed woman whose story is in the fourth chapter of John – forty-two verses are devoted to her in the longest recorded dialogue Jesus has with anyone in the … [Read more...]
Faith Wide Awake
How would you describe the church of today? Growing and passionate or compromising and falling asleep? Depending where you are, it could be either. My missionary-granddaughter tells me she has experienced the most life and excitement in churches of the Third World. It's easy to believe. If we’re honest, here in America, … [Read more...]
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