a few thoughts
Is every onramp to quarter life launched on luck, fierce independence and a good dose of angst…or was it just mine?
Dear 20-someone, The recently silenced soundtrack of another 80s pop icon brought back realities...
Can a weary world rejoice … with cancer?
A colorless, heavy sky touched my face as I stepped from the warmth of the car. It jarred...
Necessary endings. What will become of the Church?
Pride’s been reigning over peace in the hearts of Christian patriots. Conspiracy theories slithered into the isolation, unrest and fears of the pandemic and charmed church folk clutching for sense in the senseless. Will the world be able to still see Jesus through the splattered mud on His bride? Will the Church’s face be washed to reveal the scars of Jesus again?
Selah
selah. Seventy-four times, it’s there. In mystery and intention, it lurks. No English word quite describes it. His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. The holiness and magnitude embedded in the...
Unscripted reality
My work days are spent in worlds of augmented reality, in lightened shadows and retouched blemishes, in looking delicious to the eyes, maybe not always to the palate. I work in un-lived roomsets, with moving walls that...
Waking up again
This cyclical life, it all keeps going. Seasons unfold, we move forward, and again breathe sweet air. I step out to savor the perfume of another season and celebrate barren branches of winter burgeoning with color. ...
When the distance of God feels more comfortable than His presence
Why is it that the distance of God can be more comfortable than His presence sometimes? That underneath it all, sometimes that grace-thing is a little hard to swallow? When the wounds of the world expose a God that...
She’s afraid
She is afraid. Afraid of who she is when she’s alone, afraid of lingering in the skin of the one dwelling in the dark secret chambers of her heart. Afraid too, of stepping into the unknown ride of a faith journey....
Tempted? Take it higher
Tempted. You? Me too. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s...