…that you may know what is the hope of His calling” Ephesians 1:18 One man’s prayer for another, recorded on scrolls, was rolled tight in ancient days for my mind to now unroll. Inspired Words I’ve read hundreds of times work their way inside...
This fishing rod was to be an olive branch. On the way out the door to go get it, days before his birthday, we had another rub. The same conflict or a new conflict, I wasn’t sure. They had begun to blend, all of them, into one great echo. Would we ever come out of...
“O Lord, You have searched me and You know me.” Psalm 139:1 The heart’s greatest longing is to be known. We walk the earth with empty cups, foisting them in the hands of another as if to say fill me up, patch that void when our need has already been...
My dad taught me to love the ocean. The smell of salt water is synonymous to me with the smell of his skin, despite the fact that 358 days of the year we were hundreds of miles away from the shore. That one week left an impression that lingered long. My most memorable...
“…to know the love of God which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 What is this love? Who is this love? Could I possibly hold You — the fullness of You — within me? Oh, God, Your love...