For the Good of Your Place
If I could have only one chunk of the Holy Scriptures, it would be The Songs of Ascent – that lilting, transcendent collection of fifteen Psalms.[i] After years of returning to this slice again and again, it finally occurred to me to commit them to memory. They are basically a list of the things in […]
When Seeking Means Waiting
We are all seeking something, seeking more that seems just out of reach. There is a built in discontentment, a holy discontentment, if you will, within every person that forces us up, forces us forward. We seek, we grab onto one thing after another be it friends, money, good works (yes, even church/cross-cultural work), kids, […]
Whom Do You Seek?
Christmas reveals to me that I am a seeker. There’s something about this season that unveils the longings of my soul like no other holiday. Perhaps that’s because I have been taught that Christmas is “the most wonderful time of the year.” I’ve been informed by holiday ditties that dreams come true and everything goes […]