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April 2017

April 03, 2017

Jesus Is My Plumber

Disgusting, that’s what it was. This morning, after watching the sink slowly fill up and...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

When You’re Overwhelmed

I wasn't planning on things getting worse. But then they did. I have been steadily...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Spring

Today is chilly and overcast and that feels like my life right now. Maybe...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

Sighing

There is an endless sighing, a swift intake of breath, a slow exhalation, a single...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

Dream a Little Dream

Last week, I had what was maybe one of the best dreams I’ve ever had....

December 2015

December 01, 2015

Deep Thoughts

Advent is hitting me hard this year. God is calling me deeper. There’s a hymn...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Yes

I was so angry. So confused. I didn’t even go in the Adoration Chapel, because...

September 02, 2015

Lost

I don’t think I can ever be a good person. I know how and it’s...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

Predator or prey?

Dear God, Dear Lord, I can’t run any more. I can’t chase You down any...

August 03, 2015

The Most Reliable High

“It’s the most reliable high I know of.” I told someone that, yesterday. I was...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Ten

Lord, I am filled with anger and animosity, and I want You to take it...

July 17, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Free

I kneel down, right down in the grassy margin between the church's foundation and the...

July 10, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Hope

Hope is the thing that keeps me going. There’s a lot of people who don’t...

July 01, 2015

Litany of Humility

I ran across this lovely sung rendition of the Litany of Humility, which I spoke...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Five minute friday: Blue

Resting under your mantle. It’s blue like the sky. Arching over everything around me....

May 15, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Follow

Your words have grown faint and your footsteps have long dimmed from erosion. There is...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Draw me…

To the One who is both Host and Guest, Master and Servant, Lover and Beloved:...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

Witness to the Execution

I am no longer surprised by the capacity of humanity for brutality, for savagery. I...

October 2014

October 09, 2014

Hope, or the Lack Thereof

Detail of The Death of Socrates. A disciple is handing Socrates a goblet of hemlock...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

You might be a bad person, if…

No matter what you think this post is about, based on its title, I bet...

January 2014

January 15, 2014

Make No Mistake About It: You’re Loved!

I laid on my bed and bawled. My pillowcase was damp on the edge, and...

January 08, 2014

Have a cuppa: Encouragement

“What encouraging words do you want the people you care about to hear as they...

January 06, 2014

Bold, Frankincense, and Myrrh

“There!”“Where?”“Out there! See?”“Oh, now I do. In the East.”“Yes. That cloud of dust.”“That’s a caravan,...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

No words…

Because someone broke into my house and stole my laptop. With all my writing. And...

November 01, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Grace

“Are you okay?” I had fallen in the icy parking lot outside the bookstore. He...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

This is what happens

This is what happens when you throw your lot in with a madman. This is...

October 05, 2013

Shut up!

I’m not her any more. I’m not. I used to be her… the one who...

September 2013

September 13, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Mercy

I don’t think I know what this means. I mean, I think I do. Christians...

September 12, 2013

Just pretending

I am a fake. I’m pretending to be normal, and if they find out, something...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Worship

You’ll know it after it happens, but probably not during. It could happen anywhere. Dancing...

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