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He Knew Joy
John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the...
Thanksgiving: A Day To Hunger
When the feast is spread, wide, across the table, spilling over onto little children's laps and smeared across fingers and faces and filling our bellies, I want to remain hungry. Because He satiates in such a way that we can both be filled, and hunger for more. On a...
“Can ya’ dance?”: A New Place of Thanksgiving
I stood on the stage, a slip of a thing in those days, all 50-something pounds of me spotlighted. I'd finished my audition song and waited for the voices to break through the pitch-black theater. "So, can ya' dance?" bellowed one, the show's director. Up from within...
The Place Where All Things Are Lost
"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish." Philippians 3:7-9** The knowledge of You casts a shadow on everything else. The God who...
Reclaiming Wonder
Twenty minutes felt like hours, as I stood under the canopied expanse of the Michigan sky in my long-johns and layers and considered a decision that would forever alter the course of my life. Day-old snow crunched under my boots as I shifted my weight from one foot to...
You Are My Drink
"O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water." Psalm 63:1** You are my drink. My parched mouth holds itself open to receive mere drops -- what the world can offer --...
Where Dreaming Begins
"Lord, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your glory dwells. Redeem me and be merciful to me." Psalm 26:8,11** Redemption answers. It is the place where all the broken pieces of me make sense. It's Your light that fuses loud cacophonies -- ...
You Shepherd Me
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1** I didn't know I needed a shepherd, until I heard You were a shepherd and this Truth answered a life-question for me. I wasn't meant to be my own guide. And, You. You shepherd my independent heart into knowing...
What Does It Mean To Feel Safe?
He crawled on all fours, trying to blow up and out of his eyes the edges of the blanket that were covering his view, unsuccessfully. His Mary was main-stage, now, and currently had little concern for her transportation. She had a baby to birth. They recited fractured...
My Book Stacks
In the transition from vocational ministry to who-knows-what, I found myself stocking shelves and cashing orders at a little boutique in North Barracks Road which sold French and Italian pottery and linens. This was the last place a college-educated and...