It’s a quiet morning here. And by quiet, I mean my heart is quietly waking, coffee in hand, cardigan on, and blankets piled over my feet. All while some sort of loud celebratory music plays outside my window. Outside, it’s Busy. Inside, it’s Advent. So I break up my normal routine & grab my computer […]
on writing in the waiting.
I really want to write, I whisper, as my face falls into my hands to cover the shame and overwhelming emotions that tighten around my thoughts, twisting into a headache worse than yesterday’s. I mean, this is who I am. Or, rather, a part of who I am. Shouldn’t I be walking in it, bearing […]
Advent Songs, part 2: faith
With this week’s sermon, came two songs, of sorts–though the first, I guess, should be called a poem, since I didn’t discover a melody as I wrote it. The challenge at the end of this week’s sermon was to believe in Christ as our Mighty God. To cast all our fear, anxiety, our constant need […]
Advent Songs, part 1: counselor
I love advent. Just within the past year, thanks to a friend who was with me 24/7 in our first holiday season away from home on this side of the globe, I was reminded of the holy-days afresh—especially how to celebrate Advent, this season of eager waiting and longing, looking forward to Jesus’ birth: Emmanuel’s […]
How then shall we live?
reflections in Ezekiel 33-34. The last time the Lord called Ezekiel a watchman over the house of Israel was when He called him: when the Lord set him on his feet, set His Spirit in his bones, and said, “Speak what I say to you, no matter what they hear or refuse to hear.” He […]
a new song
this is not who I am this old sin-song I sing a lingering melody I did not pen and it did not pin me against myself in Christ—I am free in Christ—I am me a whole creation from the start I was living with a broken heart in a world with a imperfect melody its […]