My Blog
The Muse in the Mess: Stories on the Life of the Soul
Will God Abandon You if You Doubt Your Faith
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jesus understood my pain and doubts. He did not answer them with logic but with love.
How to Walk with God, Literally
When I was ten, I tried to invent the zip-line! Instead I broke my tibia and fibula. A compound fracture. I languished in the hospital forever and wore a stone-like a cast for months. It was the dark ages before physical therapy. I think some doctors were still using...
In the Face of Painful Racial Injustice, How Should You Respond?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The most powerful word God can speak to us if we withdraw and listen is, “Repent.”
Is Being Vulnerable a Powerful Trait
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.
Why A Cry of Lament Is Crucial for Your Healing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lament is a crucial aspect of spiritual formation because it connects our hearts to God’s heart.
What I Want to Tell My Mom Today
Reading Time: 3 minutes We were all amazed you hacked heaven out of a patch of dirt between a parking lot filled with second-hand cars and the apartment building you managed filled with second-hand people. You loved both the roses and the people nearly equally. I don’t know if you know, that rose garden is still there, seventeen years after you last fertilized it. Thank you, Mom. You reflected a beautiful but hardscrabble God to us in that rose garden and in your very life! I love you.
