What’s Ahead
I'm writing early. Sitting here on the fringes of Monday, I'm looking out onto the new week, the new year that is coming, and I feel a full well of…
Immanuel
Here we are, three days before celebrating the coming of our Christ, and there's something burning warm that I want to share with you. If we grasp this word we…
Filled vs Fraught
This time of year is always filled, or fraught, with all things friends and family. It can be filled.... with gatherings, and fajitas, and gourmet cheese balls, and aunt Ruth's…
Syria
Yesterday, I stood at my kitchen counter and thought about Aleppo as I cut up onions. Dumping slices atop a chuck roast, I glanced outside my window and marveled at…
Tune
It was well past her bedtime. She came into my room while I was readying wardrobes for the the next day. When I heard her footsteps and her, "Mommy?"... I…
Camps
I used to think that everything and everyone could be neatly nestled into the black and white. For decades I was of the thinking that all things could be divided…
Underneath
I set gas to flame and formed a fire this morning in the chimney. It's dancing happy across the room right now. The bedroom hallway behind me is still dark…
Gripped
We awoke to a drop in temps today. I have on an actual long sleeve, a fire is burning low and constant in the living room, and I'm sitting square…