Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m bewitched by aspen trees. Have been for years. They are complex, moody creatures. Their dark eyes are windows into …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes New Year’s Day cracked clear and Colorado blue, the kind of day people write love poems to. But I woke …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m rhythmically impaired. I stumbled (literally) on this fact in Navy Boot Camp. Marching was the approved way to …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes There sat the lost, the found, the diseased, the dying, the divorced, the prosperous, the poor, the married, the single, the pretenders, the sexually abused, the jobless, the parents whose beloved had committed suicide, seekers, finders, sleepers, critics, young, old, hopeful, hopeless. The usual.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prayer is to our relationship with God as sex is to a relationship with a spouse. Like sex, prayer can skim along the surface and be about what you get out of it. Or it can be intimate, vulnerable, passionate, diving deep into the mystery of two becoming one.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Notice everyone Jesus blessed is needy. Being blessed is more than a sassy ironic Southern idiom. For Jesus it meant bowing to receive God’s personal touch of grace. We cannot receive God’s blessing standing tall and proud, unwilling to recognize our need for God’s grace. It is admitting I can’t do this alone but I can do it with you.
Reading Time: 4 minutes But this last summer I learned that God’s love can always make our worse better, our poorer rich, and our less than epic wedding into a marriage adventure of a life-time.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting for Communion The house is silent Like the hearts of those Who saw Him hung And the stone rolled …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chloe Hawker wrote the stirring poem below about her mother’s, Lisa Hawker, influence on her. The imagery is surprising and …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sunday morning, Mother’s Day, as the light of a new day was still meandering down our street, my across the …
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