Reading Time: 3 minutes Poets in scripture imagined our prayers drifting up gently like smoke from incense, fragrant and pleasing to God. It is …
Storming Heaven: A Sunday Psalm Shouting for God to Hear our Complaint Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two months after our wedding The Redheaded-Wildflower [my wife Dee Dee] and I ventured into the magnificent mountains I first …
Difficult Seasons: How to Survive When Life Doesn’t Go Your Way Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes One Fourth of July my dad, sister, younger brother, and I stayed in a naturally air-conditioned, gap-log miner’s cabin in …
When Silence Speaks Louder Freedom than Fireworks: A Fourth of July Sunday Psalm Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Gone fifty-five years. He died three days before Father’s Day in 1968. His funeral was the day after. Father’s Day …
Father’s Day: What My Dad Taught Me After His Death Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dealing with long-COVID has forced me to re-recognize how human I am, at least as much as I can admit. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Burst of blue like living flame Searching from wintered stalk. Forlorn whistle calls a name. Lone bluebird becomes a flock. …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Happy New Year. The anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing speaks of ordinary grace, the daily presence of God. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Merry Christmas! During Advent many have lit candles that symbolize love, peace, joy, and hope. Those are common words we …
A Christmas Psalm: May the Love, Peace, Joy, and Hope of Christ Abide in Us Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hope is a dangerous thing. It demands we search the dark corners of life for what appears not to be …
Life Without Hope is Deadly. How Do You Find and Hold onto Hidden Hope? Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week’s Word of Advent is joy. Joy is something all of us have experienced but few of us are …
Words of advent: Advent Psalm: A Prayer to Glimpse and Capture God’s Joy Read More »