Category: Poetry
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› Read more: The Best Ten Minutes of My Week
The Best Ten Minutes of My Week
Scott Van Pelt does a segment on his sportscasting show called “The Best Thing I Saw Today.” If I were…
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› Read more: Let Loneliness Lead You to the Faithful Friend
Let Loneliness Lead You to the Faithful Friend
Underneath the noisy newsfeeds and behind the flowery photo opps with lovely lattes, many women are living what Thoreau called…
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› Read more: Baseball & Broken Plans
Baseball & Broken Plans
Real talk: our youngest who breathes baseball did not make the All-Star team. In the grand scheme of things, this…
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› Read more: Inscape in an Escapist World
Inscape in an Escapist World
Our newsfeeds, both the ones in our minds and the real ones that capture our attention, constantly bid us to…
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› Read more: Spiritual Angioplasty
Spiritual Angioplasty
I came into this week thinking it would be a normal one. But as I sit here on my couch…
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› Read more: A Legacy of Covenant Love
A Legacy of Covenant Love
Every time I walk down a certain hallway in our home, I see, among the family pictures hanging on our…
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› Read more: Precious & Painful Death
Precious & Painful Death
When the Lord speaks, a sentence can feed and fuel a soul. This morning in the corporate reading of Scripture,…
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› Read more: The Seder and The Savior
The Seder and The Savior
A few years ago, when my children were three and two years old, I had the brilliant idea of teaching…
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› Read more: The Resurrection Means Rest
The Resurrection Means Rest
If I am honest, as we are approaching the high point of the liturgical year, I am feeling quite low.…
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› Read more: Resurrection (The Happiest Handkerchief)
Resurrection (The Happiest Handkerchief)
As we approach Easter amidst war in Ukraine, it does not take much imagination for us to join the 11…