The latest from my blog
I write on all sorts of topics such as Celebration & Wonder, Community & Discipleship, Intimacy with Christ, and Redemption & Grace. I share my random thoughts in Miscellaneous Musings.
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Bouncy Ball Brain
Lately, my brain has been feeling like a bouncy ball someone unleashed on the inner walls of my skull. It's not pleasant. In fact, today I was feeling snappy and unkind in my heart because of the anxious feeling in my brain. I think I might be trying to spin too...
Legacy in the Wake
My dear friend, Missy, was unabashedly weeping as she spoke of her precious mother. She told me how her mom doesn't bemoan the future while she watches her husband's lungs fill with scars, knowing she is sojourning into the path of a widow. Instead, she is living in...
Enduring Persecution with Christ in His Proper Place
I watched a video of a pastor being interviewed from a country where his faith is illegal. He lays his earthly life aside for the heavenly Kingdom daily, and goes right on preaching the Gospel to anyone who has ears to hear. Because the worth of the Gospel surpasses...
Discipleship Is Not Condescending.
I once knew a family who thought of people like investments. They would "pour their lives out" for others, but didn't know how to just be-friend them. It never felt safe or genuine with them. There were others in my life, however, who nourished me in every way...
America: Jonah or Nahum?
It appears as though we are watching, in real time, the collapse of America the Great. It's easy to read that as a political statement, and although we can see the unseen war of the heavenlies playing out on the battlefield of earth, this is not intended to be taken...
The Pacemaker Queen
I received an email from my stepdad a couple of days ago which caused all of us recipients to start praying hard and fast. It said that my mom's pacemaker had shifted and broke through her skin. As though it wasn't enough that my mom, in her mid-60's, already had to...
Accepting My “Inadequacy”
It seems silly, on Good Friday, to tell you about someone who is neither Jesus, nor any of the posse of hooligans who followed Him around a couple thousand years ago. Instead, I am going to tell you about a modern day disciple. My friend, Beth. Many of you may know...
Ode To Theresa
A dear friend passed into Glory the Wednesday before I loaded a plane for Alaska. Her funeral was a couple of days after we landed back home. A silver urn sat among brilliantly colored flowers, and a collage of vibrant photographs, symbolic of a life lived...
Aurora Borealis
Standing outside, encircled with snow mounds, bundled in a down jacket and wool pants, hands stuffed deep to stave off the burning cold, I stared wild-eyed at the sky above, watching clouds-made-of-light dance in a spectrum of colors. Mostly green. ...
Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride Smashing
Sitting in a rocker in the sunniest corner of my room, I just read Daniel 4. It reminded me of myself... and Job... and America. But I better begin with Nebuchadnezzar, the main (human) character in Daniel 4. Nebuchadnezzar was king over Babylon at the time. Babylon...
Sensory Bliss
For some bizarre reason, I was thinking about senses. Realizing (and lamenting) how much we take them for granted, when they were invented to stir our hearts and minds to worship and wonder. Oh, the feeling of a gentle breeze kissing the skin, or the tenderness of a...
Hand in the Cookie Jar
I sat on a friend's couch, listening to her share about her week. We'll call her Jane (get it, like Jane Doe). She is a woman overcoming a life of the slavery of pleasing others. I say it like this because it really is bondage when our lives are plagued with the...