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Along the Road from Lent to Easter
Uncertainty That place where my inability to control Whatever life is handing me shakes me to the place of Certainty that You are God and I am not. Uncertainty In the Time of Lent Brings all that I am To You, the great I AM The certain sure One Here in an uncertain season Where ...
Letter to a Beloved Child
My beloved Child, You know, I knit you together in your mother’s womb. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139: 13-14) I had great fun designing your skin in such a way that you could feel the grains of sand between your toes, the roughness of rocks and bark, the smoothness of a cool...
People of Story
We are people of Story: the Story of God’s pursuit of us out of His lavishing love for us. In His story, we enter our own story. The arc from before Creation until the Renewal of All Things shapes our narrative as Kingdom people. Luke 5:17-26 opens with a cast of familiar folks: Jesus, the...
Behold Your God!
"Behold your God!" (Isaiah 40:9) "Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth…" -- God, Isaiah 42:1 "Behold, a virgin shall be with Child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." -- Angel, Matthew...
Attention, Please!
Listen. Can you hear it? It’s been over 60 years since I last heard it, but as clear as the sound of winter waves that pound the shore, I can hear Grandpa’s steady, dub, dub, dub, dub, strong heartbeat. Listen. Can you hear it? It’s been decades since it creaked along, but as clear as the sound...
Notice Differently
We walked in silence by the South Platte River, listening and watching for critters. It was a habit of ours whenever my husband and I explored that patch of earth in our Colorado days. Our Critter Count started, one way we noticed God’s presence. His creativity inhabits all the ordinary moments...
Savoring His Presence
Attentiveness to God’s heart leads to attentiveness to my own heart. Attentiveness to my heart prepares me to be attentive to the heart of another. -- Lane Arnold When it comes to my spiritual life, my deepest desire is to be with God, to imitate Jesus, and be in tune with Holy Spirit. There’s...
“Keep Your O” – The Christmas Antiphons
The Advent tradition of the O Antiphons used in liturgical worship through prayer and song starts December 17 and continues through December 23. Each of the seven O Antiphons focuses on a prophetic title of Jesus. May this lead us to gaze afresh on Him. To consider these titles is an Advent...
Interrupted
"The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light…" -- Isaiah 9:1 Light interrupts the darkness. Raw places sting. They jab at us in a thousand stabs. Be it physical, emotional, intellectual, relational, or spiritual, when we suffer, the darkness swirls too close. Our hearts ache. Our...
Echoing Her “Yes”
I step into scene that Luke 1 paints. The angel Gabriel informs Mary, a young unmarried virgin, that she’ll give birth to a child. A Child who will be great and be called the Son of the Most High. He’ll have an everlasting kingdom. Mary trembles and asks, “How can this be…since I am still a...
A Week to Get Ready
Next Sunday is New Year’s, you know. What? You think that’s not quite true? You think I may have lost a marble or two or flipped the calendar one too many months? For a good portion of my life, I’ve routinely celebrated three New Year’s celebrations: January 1: Chronological year ...
