Sunday Psalm: My God, Why Have You Taken So Long?
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn the cross, Jesus prays the first part of Psalm 22: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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How the Maxim Seize the Day Is Fatally Flawed Advice
Reading Time: 5 minutesCarpe diem, seize the day, gets tossed around as if it’s actually good advice. It’s a popular and ancient maxim
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A Love Poem about You: Sacred Relationships
Reading Time: 2 minutesBurst of blue like living flame Searching from wintered stalk. Forlorn whistle calls a name. Lone bluebird becomes a flock.
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In an Art Gallery of Pain: Loving the Shattered, Including Yourself
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe courtroom in the Chaffee County Courthouse boasted dark stained wood benches which no longer held the polished promise of
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Five Ways to See God in Daily Life in the BLINK of Your Eye
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhy do we blink? The obvious answer is to lubricate and cleanse our eyes. But thank God scientists are rarely
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How to Awaken Wonder in Life: A Story and Prayer
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen I was a child I threw myself at life. Literally I flung myself over cliffs and down precipitous bike
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How to Quell a Riot? Read a Poem!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I believe in poetry. But I’d forgotten. The last few months of our pandemic dominated, politically divided lives made
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The Poet and the Painter on Boundaries
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen staring into the beautiful, boundless stars, wonder rises in me and becomes entangled with a shivering insecurity.
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Lent: Blinded to God in Daily Life
Reading Time: 2 minutesI simply fail to see all the grand and glorious grace of God in my daily life and world. Sometimes I’m distracted, sometimes angry, sometimes tired, sometimes busy, most times full of myself. I’m blinded to God in my daily life.
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Putting a Face on God: The Most Important Face You’ll Ever See
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the Academy Award nominated movie “Nebraska” Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) is losing what little of himself is left via
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