Selfies on social media, ministries soliciting “follows”, businesses about titles and promotions, and even education telling people what they should be doing with their life. We don’t have to look very long to see our culture is self-consuming. Yet, invisible egos can hover around even the most innocent; making marriage about our wants and needs, parenting […]
Grade school, riding in our family’s van across the deserts of midland America. Empty space as far as the eye could see. Open skies begging for something real… Something tangible to see. Glimpses, pockets of water, trick my eye. Mirage’s washing along the sun-beaten road, or in spaces along the horizon. Yet, deep under every desert […]
I sit in the windowed nook. Humbled in this rare, quiet kitchen. Staring into open spaces… Calendar for the day filled with a coffee dates, racing two cities away, helping a friend, visiting with a family we are building relationship with. And yet, I ex-hail naturally. Her picture still taped to our refrigerator. Open spaces unravel […]
I simply snuck out to go to the restroom, mid-service, when others were hand-shaking and introducing… I needed a reprieve from the full day we had planned. Little did I realize that often that’s when heaven wants to encounter us… When your silent, distance, far from anticipating it. When you’ve given nothing to get it. And […]
Empty places don’t always need filling. I coast around the cliff, down our hill, across the tracks to the open field, socked with morning dew… White clouds hover over the earth, blinding creation, making it impossible to see, just a few feet in front of me… This morning of empty places, wet spaces, open earth, almost […]
I came for the coffee bean. You know, the one they put on the top of your coffee drink when you leave the corner stand. This place was my favorite, but eventually I am not going to lie…I became irritated by one of their young, blonde, baristas. Maybe it was because she rolled her eyes and […]