Can God speak to us through our bodies?
God speaks to us through our bodies. Why is that so hard to believe? We say that 70% of communication is non-verbal. Why do we insist that God speak through our listening ears? What do we perceive non-verbally? Well, this may sound nonsensical, because in normal conversation, what we mean by non-verbal is messaging though […]
Stretch to strengthen: pain of a healing sort
Body and soul together in prayer.
Don’t Hold On
Sometimes it takes a painful letting go to discover what we truly need.
I wanna be that kind of book
Pristine and new is overrated. I’d rather be the book people have paged through.
No structure, big problem
Creating structure is a superhuman act in the chaos. Welcome home.
The Space Between Gratitude and Glory
“You can make people feel,” he told me. That’s high praise, coming from a world famous poet and a marvelous compliment coming from a person who is in touch with “all the feels.” But it’s not me “making people feel.” The stories I share and the way I share them is thanks to the people who […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Longer I Wait, the Deeper I Know
J.K. Rowling first dreamed up Harry Potter in 1990, while on a train from Manchester to London. She finished the story in 2007 with the final book in the seven novel epic. Now, that’s a long story. Those who followed it all the way to its conclusion were held in suspense until the very last pages. […]
