Category: scripture
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› Read more: A Desert Beauty
A Desert Beauty
“Brown. Everything is brown,” I remember saying to my husband when we first drove around our new city of San…
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› Read more: A Redeemer Who Runs
A Redeemer Who Runs
I’ve always loved Isaiah 30. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve studied this chapter, yet the Spirit continually…
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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: Pattern over Perfection
Pattern over Perfection
It’s January 2. Some of you parents are already feeling beat up and discouraged as your perfect plans for family…
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› Read more: Leave Room for the Locusts
Leave Room for the Locusts
It’s December 30th. At least in my imagination, everyone stands with their pencils sharpened and their new calendars opened, proliferating…
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› Read more: What Mary Knew: Lessons in Mothering
What Mary Knew: Lessons in Mothering
If your family is anything like mine, Pentatonix has been crowding your home with the rhetorical question “Mary, did you…
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› Read more: Timely Words as the Year Turns
Timely Words as the Year Turns
As we approach the New Year, we are getting all the emails seeking to neatly wrap up the year: Spotify…
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› Read more: On Auden & Advent
On Auden & Advent
As Advent is drawing to a close, I’ve found surprising fodder for the fires of worship in the poetry of…
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› Read more: Advent Aches
Advent Aches
The older I get (and the older my boys get), the less Advent equals chocolate treats and the more it…
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› Read more: Cords of Love
Cords of Love
Christ, who led his people with cords of love, breathed through an umbilical cord. Christ, who led his people with…