Sunday Psalm: Asking for Grace in an Unexpected Wait
Reading Time: 2 minutes At my home nestled near the mountains on the southwest edge of Denver, we’ve had nearly four feet of snow …
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Sunday Psalm: The Imago Dei in Human Face
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s common to experience God sightings in sunsets, geese in flight, ocean waves, and other aspects of nature. Nature reflects …
Sacrifice Misunderstood: The Main Reason People Avoid or Sacrifice so Little in Lent
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s your favorite Jesus saying? Love God and love your neighbor is an especially admired one. Hard to find fault …
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How to navigate the Pain and Pleasure of daily life simultaneously
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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How the Blood Red Thread of Easter Hope Can Change You
Reading Time: 3 minutes After we buried my dad, my world was as dark as death. Every time we visited the cemetery, I would …
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How Jesus Gives a Damn about our Suffering: A Maundy Thursday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first time I celebrated Easter as something more than bunnies and colored eggs was in 1973. I’d become a …
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A Prayer Against Violence: An Honest Conversation with God
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like you I’ve been trying to process the most recent senseless killings in Boulder (and Atlanta). I’ve started several …
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How God Rekindles Your Hope in Darkness
Reading Time: 5 minutes On December 31, 1977 I sat fidgeting with the buttons on my flannel shirt in The Red-Headed-Wildflower’s parent’s living room. …
Simple but Powerful Daily Disciplines for Thriving in this Crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
Why I’m in Therapy. And Maybe You Should Be Too.
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.