It seemed so counter-intuitive. Why run into the very place that had harbored so much pain? Why not hide, race away, from the source of it all? The plane landed. My feet were still hesitant, after having dreams I would die, not knowing what that might look like. We step on the soil of my husband’s […]
I came for the coffee bean. You know, the one they put on the top of your coffee drink when you leave the corner stand. This place was my favorite, but eventually I am not going to lie…I became irritated by one of their young, blonde, baristas. Maybe it was because she rolled her eyes and […]
We love to talk about the dove descending. Jesus’ baptism, the parting heavens….as well as what He did in ministry. But could it be, the chunk of scripture cut out of our theology is… “Jesus was led (guided) by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted (tested and tried) by the devil.” I mean, […]
I can barely scan Facebook. The wars of him and her, party lines, people and histories, temperaments and issues…filling so many minds with confusion. And yet, did Jesus live in a similar day? “Render to Caesar what is Caesars”, (Matt 20:21) he answered those petitioning whether to pay taxes to those competing with modern day ideology. Still […]
It popped up as one of those sponsored posts from a well-known writer. We had like “friends”, and she had a big following… And I had forgotten… Each of us are broken, just in different measures. She had wrestled with suffering too, like most do. But then, I read the conclusion of this ex-missionary,”God doesn’t want […]
It was summer, much like the ones we have recently been experiencing. My parents century-old-house was in the eighties, come evening…the one I lived in as long as I can remember. The high, exposed, cross-beamed ceilings drew the night air rising, making the second floor I slept on like an inferno, come bed time. We had […]