Category: scripture
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› Read more: The Need for Nathans
The Need for Nathans
If you have ever found great solace in praying the Psalms of David, you have Nathan to thank. Had he…
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› Read more: June Gloom and Lingering Heaviness
June Gloom and Lingering Heaviness
It’s been a week, a week that feels like a year. A week since helicopters hovered all night over our…
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› Read more: The Unshakeable Will Remain
The Unshakeable Will Remain
Shaken. Inadequate. Exposed. Behind. Covid came along and shook up our lives, exposing -isms and idols that had taken deep…
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› Read more: Spiritual Angioplasty
Spiritual Angioplasty
I came into this week thinking it would be a normal one (as normal as a week during Covid in…
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› Read more: The Maker of Melanin
The Maker of Melanin
To my friends who are people of color, I hate that it takes cell phone footage for me to begin…
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› Read more: The Deep Desire for Company
The Deep Desire for Company
Zoom calls simultaneously meet and mock our needs for community. We have a love/hate relationship with Zoom and other technological…
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› Read more: Compassion Fatigue & Our Tireless God
Compassion Fatigue & Our Tireless God
Compassion fatigue is a newer term that describes a human’s limited capacity to exhibit compassion in comparison to the countless…
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› Read more: An Ode to Spiritual Mothers
An Ode to Spiritual Mothers
Some of the very best mothers I know don’t have children, at least not physically. Two of them are young,…
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› Read more: The Artful Arranger
The Artful Arranger
Every once in a while I splurge and buy a bouquet of flowers from Trader Joes. I snip the edges,…
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› Read more: Firm Truths for the Frail
Firm Truths for the Frail
Confession. I haven’t really been studying the Word lately. But it has been studying me and finding me frail. Since…