It likely will take you less than three minutes to run across a post, article, or Facebook thread declaring, “Think positive” or “Sending ‘good thoughts’ your way”, as if positive thinking alone is magic, this idea that we can gather our “plus energy” and use it for our benefit or other people’s gain. Hollywood has substituted it, […]

The day breaks with a stillness that grips every shaking heart. It sinks deep inside, capturing what was rivaled and turning, spinning and running. Songs of yesterday still linger in the shadows of the mind, while the waves have made way for a dormant, chrystal pond, where rays of light shine and welcome us home. And […]

It was almost five years exactly to the day since I saw you, sat with you, talked with you the very first time. Five years, since I drove through our local Starbucks and handed you a Venti….Yes, probably just to make myself feel better because you were freezing, and I was in a new, well heated […]

We all know Joseph, the earthly father, who despite him not biologically related to Jesus, God appointed him to adopt the long awaited Messiah. In a nativity or the Christmas story, Joseph is often in the shadow of Jesus and Mary. Yet, Joseph’s role in the pre-written story of Jesus is crucial to the health of […]

The pile of wrappings increase, almost daily. Presents come to my door; thanks to Amazon Prime. Still, I know of a need; a lack requiring faith, bold steps, a portion of Christ I have yet to experience…. I must step towards the water, however, this journey requiring me to get out of my boat of my […]

When the white frost blankets the earth; and all seems frozen, uncertain, immoveable and impenetrable… He is enough. When the sky is so thick in grey, clouds, sun, stars, and moon, seem to hide and play games. You know they are there, but you can’t quite see clear…. He is enough. When voices taunt, people try […]