Sunday Psalm: A Cry for Sabbath Rest
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lord of Creation, You are wide as the sky, And as true. You are as faithful as breath, And as …
Five Ways to See God in Daily Life in the BLINK of Your Eye
Reading Time: 5 minutes Why do we blink? The obvious answer is to lubricate and cleanse our eyes. But thank God scientists are rarely …
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Sunday Psalm: We Lived the Day Death Died
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alpha and Omega: You said, the first shall be last. We thought this a polite, simple rule. But in your …
Is that You, God? How to Be Sure God Is Speaking to You
Reading Time: 5 minutes The kid Samuel wasn’t getting any sleep that night. Someone kept calling his name. Thinking it was Eli, he climbed …
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Sunday Psalm: The Adventure of Saying Yes to Jesus
Reading Time: 3 minutes The day after Easter I launched out on what I’ve now called a Resurrection Adventure. You can read a more …
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Monday Psalm: I’ve Got Those Post Resurrection Sunday Blues
Reading Time: 3 minutes As I’ve written before, I believe the blues are modern psalms of lament. They name everyday pains and stresses with-in …
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What Does Resurrection Life Look Like to Us Unremarkable Saints?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Easter is an emotional contradiction for me. Each day of Holy Week stokes a flaring exhilaration. Slowly I journey through …
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Sunday Psalm: Easter Praise
Reading Time: 2 minutes Saviors have risen and fallen. But on the cross Jesus fell then rose. Weighted by the world but lifted by love.
Mixing Our Tears with Jesus’ Blood: A Good Friday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes So many stories about Mary the mother of Jesus portray her as angelically strong and a saint. But as a mother and widow how did she feel as she watched her son being crucified? My poem Mary’s Loss attempts to dig into her feelings of despair.
How to Do More than Just Pray to Change the World: A Maundy Thursday Reflection
Reading Time: 6 minutes Prayer is a wrestling match, a hard conversation, more listening than talking. I know my prayers are too often just cosmic shopping lists for God to fulfill should God care to.