“What are you hiding?” She asked. I stared at her. “What do you mean?” (It probably really came out like “Whaddayamean?”) I’d been transcribing reports for Heidi, a rehabilitation nurse, for several months. “I tell you about my family, stuff I’m doing, but you never tell me anything about you. It’s like you’re in the […]
In Which I Need Easter Every Day
I sit in my mother’s place at the vinyl-covered table, and it feels strange. One day I serve my dad scrambled eggs, and on another he serves me a fried egg. I ask how he makes it so perfect, and he shows me how he baptizes it with water and covers it with a […]
Easter Sunday: ALIVE!
He was sheer weakness and humiliation when he was killed on the cross, but oh, he’s alive now—in the mighty power of God! ~2 Corinthians 13:4a (Message)
Still Saturday: That I Might Become What I Was Not
They called him every name in the book and he said nothing back. He suffered in silence, content to let God set things right. He used his servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became your healing. […]
I Thirst (Repost)
They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out. ~Isaiah 48:21 (NIV) I thirst. Did the words wake me or did they wait on my headboard to pounce at the first sign of activity? They seared […]
Because the Father Turned His Face (Repost)
He came on a colt. The fragrance of His coming preceded Him. A King bent on a peace mission. Hailed in the name of the Lord. But hearts would harden, spittle would fly, and fists would fall. Bone-and-metal-tipped strips would find their marks. He would be ripped apart like the temple curtain. Thorns would gash […]
When the F-Word’s Caught in a Web
I play the word game puzzle letters in bits and pieces lose scraps in dusty corners and the F-word’s caught in a web. So I plant potatoes in my bed, chase gophers in the garden, do battle with aliens, and have tea with a purple moth. Wait until it all comes around and a […]
A Here-We-Go-Again Life
The fragrance of April Fresh wafts from the jumble of warm towels next to me. I smile as I watch two robins scuffle in the front yard. I pull out a sage green towel, pinch two corners together, fold the length in half two corners to four, fold again and smooth on stacked pile. When […]
Scripture Sunday: On the Way to Jerusalem
Jesus, now well on the way up to Jerusalem, took the Twelve off to the side of the road and said, “Listen to me carefully. We are on our way up to Jerusalem. When we get there, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the religious leaders and scholars. They will sentence him to […]
Still Saturday: Miraculous Change
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the […]
