“Do you want to be healed?” he asked. He smelled like cinnamon and pepper and cut through our stink, all of us unwashed, honey pots next to us. Yes, his…
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I’m not Peter. I never said, “If it’s you let me step into the storm and come to you.” So don’t go blaming me for trying to walk on water….
Celebrating April Winter has lain heavy on me. Even on cozy days with snow falling, inviting me to read, I’d read a page and drift into sad, lonely thoughts. To…
These days I feel for Judas Iscariot, how he hated the powers that be, saw the iron fist and the chaos underneath government rule, how he thought Jesus the Messiah…
I did some imagining with this one, so it’s a little different than usual. See what you think. Bread from Heaven We walked away from Eygpt for three months. We…
Recently I went to Alan’s celebration of life and wish I’d spoken. I did not know him as a proud horse show dad, watching his daughter ride her pony over…
We stand still. The water cupping the sunlight in the sea hurt our eyes. We’d seen the miracles in Egypt–the bloody water, the giant hail, the locusts, the darkness. We…
On New Year’s day, I walked into a cloud that settled on the neighbor’s field, now cleared of corn. I could not gaze to the silver grain bins, like unlabeled…
DUE TO THE INSENSITIVITY OF CHRISTIANS AROUND ME OR HOW OTHER CHRISTIANS KEPT A BROKEN REED SMOKING BY CUPS OF WATER OR LORD BE GENTLE (Note: As I’ve been reading Brad…
In December, the pup wakes us at 4:30. Outside we see Orion standing in the eastern sky, close to the horizon, swollen like a god who could reach out his…