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Your Love Confounds My Mind
"...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 confounds my mind. It stills...
You Win Back My Days
"Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits." Psalm 68:19 So many days I wake up, burdened. Heavy. Carrying the weight of the previous day, with all of its circumstantial declarations and the questions of the day ahead, threatening to wrap their web around...
Just One Thing
One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4 One hundred days would not be enough to behold You. One year would...
To Know Him as Healer
I heard her cries before the clumsy footsteps seeking to keep up with her body's centrifugal force led her into my kitchen. "It's ruined, Mommy! I ruined it!" she said, through sobs as she thrust her Bible into my hand. My child who cannot yet read, mimicked her mommy...
Participatory Glory
"And let the whole earth be filled with His glory." Psalm 72:19 Is it that big, Your glory? Big enough to fill the whole earth? The prayer prayed -- the request, made -- was initiated by You. Your ways are higher, God. I adore You for vision unending. You are higher...
One Simple Look
"They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed." Psalm 34:5 Everything about You is light. Can I even grasp this kind of light, sent by the One whose very existence eradicates darkness? I look at You and my face gains color, anew. One simple...
He Named Her Sarah
Doreen* grabbed Lily's hand and they slid away, around the corner and behind the girls' dormitory, back for moments into the secret sisterhood of hollow years that only few will ever fully understand. To Lily, this was now her past; to her friend, this was her life....
I Call You Daddy
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God." John 1:2 Though I can sink into feeling severed from Your family line, ashamed and bearing heavy burdens -- same old burdens that wear my skin thin in the same old places -- You still...
The Fellowship of His Suffering
"I'm sorry to jump into your conversation," she said, as she knelt awkwardly over the stiff, high-backed airline seat in front of me, "but I've had two miscarriages and all of my friends are having kids and it's so hard." Her eyes glistened, holding back tears, as her...
“… because they cannot repay you.”
My former-orphans wear flip-flops with flower appliques and madras shorts and big bows in their hair. They ride bikes and climb trees and weed the garden for the day's "Team Hagerty" task. They have tea parties underwater and sport goggles that I sometimes think might...