It’s the time of year for Christmas letters, time to re-cap what has transpired month-by-month in our lives. Births and deaths, weddings and vacations, accomplishments and happy memories. Meanwhile we relegate the sad, the bad, and the hopeless to wait in the closet till the Christmas letters are signed and mailed, or till we’ve pressed […]
After all the bliss and fuss of the holiday season it is good, essential in fact, to rest awhile, to sleep in a bit, to sit and collect thoughts, to refuel…I find myself not yet ready yet to produce many words. May I offer you instead some passages I’m meditating on… I Samuel 30. David’s […]
Have you noticed how unique the walk of faith is for each of us? We are called to imitate Christ and yet we will not all be itinerate miracle workers without a place to lay our heads… Paul invited the brothers to imitate his example (Phil. 3:17), to follow him as he followed Christ, but […]
Well, since summer has been late to show its warm and sunny face I’ve had some extra time to shuffle papers and sort books and all those indoor organizing kinds of things that really must be done but somehow get put off… I have a closet full of books and papers from seemingly countless years of […]
Have you noticed how good things always come to pass. Long-awaited but so quickly past? Old friends from far-away and long-ago come to visit—stirring memories and names long unspoken—and when good-byes are said a kind of weary home-sickness settles in… Not a longing for any physical place. Not a longing earth can satisfy–but a longing […]