Last Monday I had to go over to the lake house at Deerpoint where Bill and I lived for 16 years. Though I thought I ‘d live there for the rest of my life, after Bill’s death during Covid, it soon became more than I could care for alone. When I went last...
“The heavens were opened and I saw visions of God….” Ezekiel 1:1 The heavens opened for Ezekiel. “and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove” Matthew 3:16 The heavens opened for Jesus. “But he, being full of the Holy Spirit,...
God has been writing on the tablets of hearts for millennia, but the watchmen have been asleep on the wall, the runners have been distracted. God has been writing on the tablets of hearts for millennia, but the watchmen have been asleep on the wall, the runners have...
One spring day I was driving home from work and had been considering Moses and the burning bush, the manifestation of God’s glory. I looked ahead to a section of road and saw the glint of afternoon sun shining through the leaves of a red oak and felt the...
Many have assumed that since the Dobbs case challenge and decision to return regulation of abortion to states that the issue is resolved. It is not. There are efforts to “enshrine the right to abortion”, with no limitations, into the US legal code through...
Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; In 1997, someone handed me a small piece of paper with the first part of this verse: “A bruised reed he will not break, and a...
Mining nuggets on suffering well from this by Jordan B. Peterson: “When you’re in hell, anything that lifts you out even a little bit, which stops it from becoming completely catastrophic, is a lifejacket that stops you from drowning. This realism about the...
“Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is. And you should know what your myth is, because it might be a tragedy. And maybe you don’t want it to be.” Jordan Peterson This reminds me of something I have said often to students:...
“What’s one thing you do that AI can’t do? Or two things? Or three?” Spiritual Director and Writer’s Coach, Charlotte Byrd Donlon, posed this question in one of her recent “5 Good Things” newsletters that she sends out. It was a timely and...
“Triangles are very strong shapes which makes them important when building strong and stable structures.” The notion of an “iron triangle” resonates with me, just as it does when a child picks up one to tap out a rhythm for the first time. Thinking of triangles...
