The Collective Epiphany

Have I mentioned that I’m not a fan of the New Year’s holiday? Really I can take it or leave it. For one thing, it’s a whole lot of hype & fireworks & store sales just to hang up a new calendar. For another, I might be a little resistant to...

All These Things

You smile at me in such a way that makes us both cry (a little) for love of these ordinary moments of watching life go by together: how the kids grow and how the world repeats itself (for better and for worse) and how love deepens miraculously tho the scars. All these...

Monday Muse: Dance in the Desert

For the Christmas-weary and the inspiration-drained, for the spiritually overwhelmed and the spiritually skeptical, the simple story of Dance in the Desert is a gift of exquisite imagination and wonder for the post-Christmas season. Madeleine L’Engle’s...

Do Not Be Afraid

We should be afraid, of course, to be so near to God. We should be startled by the glory of God and the disruption of angels. We should be freaked. out. that God even blinks in our direction, let alone that God dares us to walk a new path just to see what God can do...

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