Paint covers the flat, white sheet. Big strokes, small strokes, detailed dashes with red, blue, and green…He focuses, intent… Head down, eyes fixed on the paper before him. Like Piccasso, He taps into something divine and creates a masterpiece that’s all along, his alone to define. His parent enters. She points to his creation. The little […]
We all want to fit in a box…if we are honest, if we search our hearts and even science that says, social norms are what society loves to mold themselves into. But this gospel, this Jesus-loving, radically-changing, people-caring life will be out of the box, if we live it right. I see my old picket fence. […]
Oh friends, this weekend was a reminder that our day is turning clearer, yet our doctrine, more muddied. I wail inward at the deceived, at the reminders that love reigns, but love without truth is poisonous, ugly. Parents, won’t we teach our children the ways they should go, so when they are older, a toxic culture […]
Oh God, that you might be the light, and I just be in your shadow. So much of my life, I have tried climbing my own way out of a pit; fought, clawed, thought just being “good” would bring me any number of desired responses. But God, you showed me, all my righteousness is like filthy […]
Anyone whose ever been slashed with internal scars, knows the defeaning quiet and how it can disform a weary soul. Frozen white smothers the landscape in our back five acres, like His grace that promises to coat, deep within. White-washing, laying a blanket over everything ugly, over everything unappealing; like what most all of us ache […]
I was told the other day, there is a girl who found out she was pregnant. She is planning to abort her child. She isn’t wicked, evil, or bad. Instead, she is an orphan herself, on the inside; forgotten, alone, and sad. This week, New York made it legal to abort children up until their due […]