The other day a phenomenal article came across my reader. I loved it for so many reasons—not the least for it honesty. The Life of Faith in a Life in Crisis I love candor. I love transparency; that sort of no-holds-barred-this-is-who-I-am-in-light-of-His-love glimpse that is so rare among us today. It’s ragged. Real. And yes, sometimes it’s […]
Last week I felt an upward tug on my heart. (Not, I say, at the corners of my mouth.) As I prayed about my next in-depth study of Scripture, I sensed a pull in the direction of Philippians. I will confess that I did not feel a particular kinship to the Apostle and his message […]
Sometimes when the longing strikes and the words refuse to come, I grab my camera and the nearest willing model and try to capture my heart with my lens. Here two of my favorites -- my younger daughter and my favorite poet -- do their utmost to help me.
I am not a morning person. Never have been. But some days are easier than others. Some mornings I am warmed by Scriptures and the sun and the homespun sounds slipping under my door; my daughter making coffee, my son washing up breakfast dishes. But other days my heart does not rise to greet the […]
For those whose hearts have quailed in the black night of abandonment, for the souls who've stood -- humiliated and ashamed, beneath the cast-off banner of rejection, for those of us who've wondered if God will someday do the same: healing words from Spurgeon. “Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” — […]
Pyramids attest to great men and annals belong to kings but most of us common folk will simply make due with gravestones. Yet there remains a still more excellent way, a deeper legacy, a richer inheritance for those who follow -- a legacy not etched in stone, but in that indestructible substance: love. The following […]