Mute We Waited
When The Great Archer stood upon the uppermost crag of scrambled complexity He stood not alone. Nearest the elbow holding the bow — the Begotten One to send ahead. On opposite flank — ...
C.S. Lewis Addresses
We desire what we have never known. “In speaking of this desire for our own far-off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. ...
Ours Is A Story of Repair
Ours is a Story of Repair Ours is a story of repair. We came to it broken. Torn images, missing scenes. You remember a red butterfly. I remember yellow angel trumpets. We wanted honey. Bees were ...
Who God Designed Me to Be
Song of a Bruised Camellia Whether I’d like to admit it or not, I’m not the flower everyone thinks I am. I am not the flower. I am not her. Not that one. I am another one. Whether I’d like to admit ...
Intents and Purposes
This is an excerpt from my book, Intents & Purposes. Learn more about Intents & Purposes here. Yellow. The suitcase is as close to yellow as any other color. For a surprise, the sisters wrap ...
Intents and Purposes
She knows nothing. Less than nothing. This is what she knows. She has agreed to what she does not know, to what she believes will be easy. Something black. Something white. Knowing she knows nothing ...
Words to Ponder
In every man’s heart, there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty – Christopher Morley ...
Refusing Despair
Refusing Despair Refusing Despair, we surrendered to Hope. We remembered and marked the disasters along the way. Returning to the forgotten, we nearly drowned for fear of the depths. But Faith ...
When a Fireball Lands
This is what happens when the fireball in the sky lands in your dream and you have to listen to its flames and have to make sense of the blazing language that climbs up on your tongue and starts it ...
What Jonathan Edwards
“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and ...
Growing up in a Hive
She grew up in a hive, a vast, endeavoring conglomeration that stretched from here to there and beyond. The scope of its distance was too far to see. The wealth of effort and sacrifice and ...