Category: Poetry
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› Read more: Melville, Mildness, and Transformation
Melville, Mildness, and Transformation
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Herman Melville, which I know sounds more than a little odd. Reading Philip…
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› Read more: To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
I’m not exactly sure what I thought my forties would look like, but I think I had the unspoken, almost…
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› Read more: A Word to the Long-Waiting
A Word to the Long-Waiting
As Dona Maria sat beside her long-time friend and shared stories of their ministry together, I had to hold back…
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› Read more: Mary to the Donkey
Mary to the Donkey
While at a birthday party in the country, my youngest son and I found solace from an epic Nerf gun…
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› Read more: Is It Well?
Is It Well?
We sang “It is well with my soul” this morning, only I couldn’t sing. I know that I have security…
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› Read more: Living with Proper Proportion
Living with Proper Proportion
I share a roof with teenagers which means that things get easily out of proportion. To their developing brains and…
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› Read more: Rotten & Redeemed
Rotten & Redeemed
Somehow, despite century upon century of irrefutable evidence, we keep waiting for the world to be good. We keep being…
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› Read more: The Perks & Paralysis of a Performative Identity
The Perks & Paralysis of a Performative Identity
With three sports-loving boys in the middle of multiple sports seasons, God is doing a deep and refining work on…
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› Read more: Good News for the Sifted & Condemned
Good News for the Sifted & Condemned
I am a perfectionist. This means that I am constantly battling accusations and condemning thoughts from the worst place: myself.…
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› Read more: His Broad Back & His Everlasting Arms
His Broad Back & His Everlasting Arms
My son drew a worry monster this week. A little sketch made of charcoal pencils in his tiny notebook. The…
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