Lately, I’ve heard people mock the idea of thoughts and prayers in the wake of a tragedy, but I have seen the power of these prayers. Jesus says we’re supposed…
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The other morning’s mares galloping across the sky. They run full throttle, tails streaming behind them. The air is still down here but teasing those tails out behind them. I’d…
I came this close to selling my young mare. She was five. When she was displeased, she snapped her big white teeth at me and she bucked, with the most…
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on me. Who ever would dump their dead sheep in the ditch along our road–the flies matted…
Back in the day, prophets wore animal skins, ate locusts and honey, stood by rivers, cried, “Repent!” These days, Donald Trump calls us to repentance. After all, hasn’t he risen…
The next time you go for a walk, feel your feet walking across the ground. What do your footsteps sound like? Listen to their speech. What are they saying? Do…
Right now I’m challenged by my faith and my failure to follow Jesus properly. Yet the basic story of Easter is reassuring and freeing.
During chores, I turn the radio to NPR, because I’m fascinated with current events. My attention is so fixed I almost worship the whole drama. But what good does that…
The pulley came off the top of our barn, where they hauled loose hay up through a door that flopped down. The farmers before us would haul loose hay up…
“The harvest is ended, the summer is past and we are not saved” rattles through my mind like a chant this holiday season. I have bowed under the yoke of…