Naming Both
Five days before the wedding, the mother of the groom dies from wounds sustained in a car accident. Reeling in shock, the family adds another event to their already...
Category: Spiritual Formation
God, What Are You Doing?
Our mask mandate just lifted this week. It seems that life will be returning to some semblance of normal as we get used to breathing the unfiltered air and...
Fifteen Minutes Matter
I just needed fifteen minutes to step out of my house and clear my head. Usually, I prefer to view the beauty of my surroundings from my favorite chair...
Refresh, Recalibrate
I had to chuckle at the timing of this post. You see, I just hit the tail end of my Master’s program and submitted my thesis last week—all 49,431...
Confused by Balloons, Comforted by Banners
The first time I saw it, I laughed. A runner with a balloon tied to his back. Is someone trying to be the circus clown? Stand out in the...
El Roi – The God Who Sees Me…And You
Sometimes, there’s a song that speaks to us for a moment. And then there are times that a song just lingers. We put it on replay...
The Beauty that Remains
During our year in France studying language, we would pass through a courtyard garden every day. The garden was home to flowers of many kinds. In bright pinks, yellows,...
Tree of Abiding
It seems that the older I get, the less complicated I need things to be. I have enough trouble remembering where my keys are, what I walked into a...
To Know and Be Known
Recently, this question caught me: Am I known by God? Of course, I know the intellectual answer to this question. Yes, God is my Creator, as...
Divide and Conquer
“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.” -Eleanor Roosevelt But...
