Humaning Together
I don’t deserve what I have any more than the desperate refugee deserves to flee for his life or the starving child deserves to go hungry. Yet, I know them by heart. As the mother with hungry children gives them what little there is, and her portion, too. As the one without a home seeks […]
Dear Christine, Dear Brett
Dear Christine Blasey Ford, I believe you. For the same reason Bible scholars offer to believe the first disciples, witnesses to the resurrection of Christ. Though they could not produce physical evidence other than their first-person testimony (which varied from evangelist to evangelist) and could not provide tangible proof for investigating authorities. No, they are […]
Sown Seed
But the seed falling on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
A love like no other
Sometimes there is a friend, early on, say, in high school, who writes in your yearbook. Pages and pages, continued here and then over there, with a message that defies time and space. Dispensing with the cursory, superficial gibberish, this friend heads straight for the truth with words so profound that, at 17 years old, you actually transcribe them so […]
First we must stand
Walking, it’s as natural as breathing. Put one foot in front of the other. Move it on out. It wasn’t always this way. Once, we couldn’t hold our head up, couldn’t roll over couldn’t sit without toppling couldn’t rock on all fours could not even crawl. Imagine, there was a time when we were stuck in […]
Lord, I believe but…
Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief! Perhaps the most honest words ever uttered. I want to believe completely. I want to be certain. But certain would mean that I have absolutely no doubt. None at all. Nada. But the truth is, I do have doubt — at least a little doubt — daily. I mean, what can […]
What if our lives came with an owner’s manual?
If automobiles come with an owner’s manual, surely there must be one for me. No responsible manufacturer would slap a human together without an owner’s manual. Let’s see. Here’s what’s listed in the Quick Reference for my Ford Escape. Instrument panel/vehicle display … For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. […]
Poetic Justice … you can take it with you
Journalism reports yesterday’s news. Like the weather, it needs no re-cap. No sense keeping that around. Fiction tells a good story. Entertaining, but unless those characters make a home with us, one and done. yet… Poetry bears telling and re-telling, reading and re-reading. Poems speak newness, reading into us, as we are new. The one we […]
Being Brave: Powerful New Devotional Book by Kelly Johnson
These days, being brave is not optional; it’s imperative. And the bravery I’m talking about doesn’t come from girding your loins and bucking up your confidence. It can’t be bought because it’s not for sale. But it is available. In fact, it’s essential to the life God wants you to lead. This is the message […]
Still, not stationary
Still. Is it even possible to be still, in the presence of one who is never still? Mirror neurons, they are a-buzzin’ How is it that God, who is stillness, is strength and power, endurance and accomplishment, rest and calm, undiminished all? While I, overtaken by sorrow at the weeping, muffled by the world’s accounting, leaden […]