a few thoughts
A Perfect Storm
Sometimes it takes a storm to move you to the other side of the lake. Have you ever found yourself...
We can do this together.
We think this is hard, and we’re alone and we’re walking a road that humanity has never seen....
Don’t Let Love Be Silent
Let grace find you, and please, let it move you. Tell me that you care more than a head-nod about people who live lives, not like yours. And if you follow Jesus, tell...
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...