Don’t Forget Those Hurting In Spring

Spring, too, can be a hard season. [Click title to read more.]

False Starts And Faith

It's embarrassing to realize that I trust the cycle of the seasons a good deal more than I trust God. Maybe most of us do. [Click title to read more.]

Don’t Be So Ready To Leave This World Behind

When we leave, the light leaves with us. [Click title to read more.]

Brutal Faith

Faith is not the belief that one day God will validate and explain everything that has ever happened to us. Faith is trusting that God is who He says He is, and that He knows what He is doing, and that He acts toward us in love. That's it. That's all. [Click title to read more.]

The “I’m Doing It Right” Myth

The fact that you're happy, healthy, and doing well does not necessarily indicate that your relationship with God is going well.

A Covenant Upon Parting

I wouldn't have seen it if not for the storm.

Knock-Down Days

A knock-down day is not a tragedy, not a disaster, but is made of the tiny little griefs and irritations that eventually topple you. [Click title to read more]

God’s Sacrifice

I still don't know why God does what he does. I still wonder about the tension between what God can do and what God will do and why sometimes our faith doesn't move mountains - even when we have as much as we can muster. But God asks so little of us in comparison to what He has demanded of Himself to love us. Truly, He is not far. [Click title to read more.]

To Those Who Are Struggling

On the frustrating day, on the dark day, on the hopeless day, our prayers and our faith - tarnished and stumbling and broken as they are - shine brighter. And what matters the most is not if they are strong, and not if they are hopeful, and not if they are packed with praise, but that they are there at all. [Click title to read more.]