Wait Thou Only On God – Meditation
I do not typically quote the King James Version of the Bible for all sorts of intellectual semi-snobby divinity school graduate reasons, but there are just some verses whose meaning only is apparent...
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From the time I was little, I have always had something to parent. My first forays into parenting included naming everything—even a huge stiff carnival walrus—“Snoopy.” I loved dogs, and so a fictional...
View ArticleRemember the Joy
The above clip is Dedicated to one particular nurse I sang it to. One morning in the days leading up to my graduation from seminary, I awoke with the childhood ditty of “I’ve got that joy, joy, joy,...
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Ahh…the inner critic. Do you know what I am talking about? The inner critic who snips at you right at the moment you need to be your own very best friend. The ICE (inner critic extraordinaire) will...
View ArticleHallowed Hollowed Out
Some of you I will hollow out. I will make you a cave. I will carve you so deep the stars will shine in your darkness. You will be a bowl. You will be the cup in the rock collecting rain… I will do...
View ArticleWith: For Survivors of Trauma
My friend, Mystic Mama, turned me onto The Daily Love by Mastin Kipp. Mastin has been through some personal shit, and he has rewritten the script of his life by going deep. In short, he is a survivor...
View ArticleAdvent II: Living Richly Here
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce…For...
View Article1% More Hope
Recently, I stepped right up to my line of despair. We received an email from the Better Business Bureau regarding our complaint, and seeing the hostile nature of the first paragraph reply from our...
View ArticleHigh Noon
In the classic Western movie style, enemies meet at high noon to square off guns blazing. The light of day allows every crease on their sundried faces to glisten as sweat rolls down their cheeks. Their...
View Article#YesAllWomen
In 2007 I went through a year of dating pretty much any guy I could. I had been through a terrible break-up the Christmas before, so I wanted to get out there, date around, meet a lot of people and...
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