See, Hear, Understand 2020
How is it that the believers are supposed to believe at a time like this? How are the ones who call Christ their Creator to think about love, and ponder…
October Blog Blitz
The sun's going down on the deck. It's much too rickety to go out and write on these days but it will get redone in due time, hopefully sooner rather than…
Back Then
I haven't heard Brian Crain's Piano Opus since I wrote things from a tiny rent house right outside of Houston, TX. Back then, I'd rise early before the children stirred…
Snow Days
I'm looking out on a stark white yard, a hunched magnolia, and flakes falling in a sweet kind of rhythm. I like the silence of the snow. It builds up…
Snapshot
Sunshine is spilling in from the glass on our balcony door and splashing warmth all over our white frayed comforter. It's making Saturday feel special. This is extra sweet because…
A Sunday and a Season
It's Sunday and my seat will be empty. That seat there next to the preacher where I stand and raise one hand in worship and slip the other into his…
How to Journey
This past year was marvelous and ugly all mixed. I learned a lot in the darkness, and grew a lot in the light, and gained bravery and brazenness in what…
How to Journey
This past year was marvelous and ugly all mixed. I learned a lot in the darkness, and grew a lot in the light, and gained bravery and brazenness in what…
Home
Seeing his shoes makes me breathe easy. All worn and untied and soft from all day wear, sitting there, at the end of our long hall.... They tell me that…
Something New
There are flowers bigger than my face clinging to a hill just outside our home. They're maroon and pink and yellow and fabulous. They sit pretty between the fence and…