I made you birthday pancakes today. They weren’t round. They weren’t perfect. You probably won’t even remember them. But I made them because I love you. You didn’t mind their raggedy shape, the fact that they were a little burnt on the backs, though I turned them down when I gave them to you. You ate […]
I can almost see Him, can’t you? Slipping into one of John’s speeches, quieting the storm, doing something few new the reason for. The waters part, He descends across the lake’s floor, looking to John who in return insists, “The Holy One should baptize me instead”. Now Jesus had learned carpentry from his earthly father, he […]
“Mom, I need $2700.00 in three days,” she calls from across the ocean. “What? We already sacrificed so much for the first part of this mission? O.k., I guess we’ll just take it from saving.” I think to myself, but say nothing. After all, she is eighteen. What does she really know about the reality of […]
If you are a Christian, at least in these parts, it won’t take you very long to find one; someone wandering, offended, or just plain disillusioned with the institution of the church. Some of my closest brothers and sisters can be found church hopping, or saddened and leaving the church all together…silently disappearing unnoticed from corporate […]
It couldn’t be. Getting ready to sit quietly at the feet of Jesus, she texts me from across the world, “I am getting ready to sit down with Jesus too. It’s my best time of day, doing devotion”. And the Hannah in me starts to long for her curly-dark-hair bouncing, the bubbly way she greets us, […]
Like a fluffy, white comforter it lay. Stretched out between the valley of cows and the road taking us high unto our home. Fog so thick, puffy, white. Still resting in the lowlands before the sun beams bright unto all creation. I watch it as I drive. Up, down, over the hills, catching glimpses of what […]