In the past, I’ve written about the difficulties of the Christmas season for single people (see When You’re Tired of the Waiting this Christmas and When Part of Your Heart Feels Dark this Christmas). Those moments will probably never go away while we’re single because the ache and longing to have our own families during… Continue reading Five Holiday Traditions to Start as a Single Person
Advent Sunday 3: Peace Reflections from Zephaniah 3 & Luke 1 Angry shouts ring out. A door is slammed. A gun goes off. A siren wails in the night. Wars rage across the planet. Gang violence ravages neighborhoods. Bullies rule the school yard. Marriages rip apart in homes. And we all just… Continue reading Peace in the Midst of Chaos
Advent Sunday 2: Love Reflections from Isaiah 41 They fling their words desperately, Angry accusations tinged with pain – “How could a loving God Allow so much suffering in the world?” All around our parched, longing souls Lie disease, storms, destruction, Aches and fears, lies and fights. Where is the love of God… Continue reading Oh, What Love Divine!
Advent Sunday 1: Hope Reflections from Isaiah 9 We walk in the gloom of anguish. We walk in thick darkness, our heads bowed low, our hearts burdened heavy, our tears breaking out. Sin weighs us down. Pain, disease, heartache, despair— They seem to touch every corner Of our messy and fragile… Continue reading And So, We Hope this Christmas
Originally written for the Good Friday service at Christ Community Bible Church in Arlington, Texas. His hour had come at last. The hour that all creation had been waiting for Since the woman first sank her teeth into A morsel of fruit And plunged the world into death and decay. This was the… Continue reading A Beautiful and Scandalous Night
Do you ever get tired of the waiting? The exhaustion of holding on to faith when fear seems so much closer? The pain of wanting never giving way to fulfilment? The ache of the same thing day after day when you long for it to change? Is it hard not to grow cynical? To not… Continue reading When You’re Tired of the Waiting this Christmas
I have a set of pictures taken one Thanksgiving in my early 20s. It was shortly after I had gotten a new camera, so I was taking pictures of everything. While I was playing Scrabble with the family, I took pictures of my mom, my dad, my brother, the Scrabble board, and then myself. I… Continue reading Embracing the Holidays with the Family You Have
Last year, I found this picture on Pinterest and shared it on Facebook, asking whimsically who might want to go away to a winter cabin with me. Many people were in favor of the idea, and I got to thinking about what a cozy winter hibernation would look like – and this fanciful little dream… Continue reading The Winter Hibernation Dream
This month, I’ve been reading a chapter of Matthew each night to reflect more deeply on the life of Christ during this season of Lent. These poems have come as a result of those reflections. Tried & Tempted, Victorious & Vigilant Matthew 4 Before ministry began, Christ the human Faced the desert temptation, Weak… Continue reading The Life of the True Light on Earth – Lenten Reflections
Tonight I went back through the picture albums on my computer to look at old Christmas pictures – all the way back to 2006. Fourteen years of different Christmas celebrations. They all felt the same from year to year, but the pictures tell a different story. The babies got older. Some years, we had lots… Continue reading The Pictures of Christmases Past
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