She stood on a stage to speak, just before me. I remember her well. Thick, light hair, a seasoned voice, and a face that reflected the layers of living, I had only begun. The power of her testimony, no one could argue. The story goes, she was sitting in a jail cell and Jesus appeared to […]

Grief makes you hide. Anyone who has experienced a sudden loss, a slow painful death; the hands of the enemy ripping what you were holding, straight from your chest… Knows this to be true. The ocean of pain and loss, guilt and regret gnaw at you,  until the undercurrent of grief grabs at you and pulls […]

A storm is brewing. We can see it with the hurricane of stories flooding media outlets. Torrents of rain pounding down upon our heads, whispering lies of how little, unseen or insignificant we are. Still, it’s the marching of darkness, that makes me grab my chest. The locus’ stirring chaos, making messes, that make us cry […]

A blanket of heat covered the Northwest, like the stifling warmth shallowing our breath, making us gasp for air. As soon as our SUV swerved onto the freeway, the cars before us seemed to stop, as if to block us from what God was doing, in Seattle. The air conditioning broke, sweat poured down our faces, […]