Featured: The dissolution of a dream ...
A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]
Whenever I need to be reminded of the unconditional, unearned grace of God, I read Brennan Manning. Today, this was his gift to me: "My message, unchanged for more than fifty years, is this: God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It […]
The greatest commands are to love God and love others. This is Bible 101. Yet, we fail at this over and over; especially the second one. I should say, I fail at this over and over ... Sometimes we think we just need to try harder and get more serious in order to do this. […]
Grace, my friends … grace! Robert Capon writes: “The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism … a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof GRACE – bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which could convince […]
So many questions these days about the Bible, and what certain parts of it mean … Know what? I don’t have that many answers. The Bible remains a mystery to me … Occasionally, I think I catch a glimpse of truth. But mostly, I remain humbly confused. In awe … but confused. Drawn to it […]
It is the time of year when all kinds of bins and boxes and organizational supplies are for sale. They are meant to help those of us who have way too much stuff BELIEVE that with just the right equipment, we can really, finally, get organized. Here’s the dirty truth: If you have too much […]
