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Beloved Prostitutes

We “met” another “neighbor” last night on a family walk around the block.  But let me back up just a little bit.  We had just finished...

One

When things feel out of order or in any way chaotic, it becomes imperative for me to impose new structures.  As mentioned on numerous...

Shrinking

Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. Sometimes you were...

Silence is Golden?

The silence of God can be a very loud, overpowering reality, particularly if you are an extrovert, fed by active engagement in...

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

The Tolkien quote that is often seen on bumper stickers affixed to Jeep Wranglers is profound.  One views “a wandering soul” as...

Talitha Koum

What is it about William Wallace and his fight for Scotland that inspired me so when I first saw Braveheart and continues to energize me...

Forsaken?

And Gideon said to him, “Please, sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful...

I Hope

Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!  Hold me up, that I may be safe and have...

Perplexing Freedom

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.  But now that you have come to know God, or...

Be Stilling the Trouble

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let...

Entrusted

Yesterday I crossed over the end of my ability to process, to cope, to navigate, to be considerate or unselfish.  My sweet husband has...

I See You and I Hear You

My God, whom I praise,     do not remain silent,  Psalm 109:1 There are times when my faith is challenged by what feels like God’s...

Grace to Worship Properly

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish...

Under Authority

As I’ve watched Ellie navigate  a new world of authority figures this year, both at school and at soccer, there have been some that just...

Dislocated and Relocated

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and...

Humility or Fear of Man?

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests...

Politically Righteous?

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  Matt. 12:34 With the...

Impossible Hope

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.  The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same...

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