Come down here and look me in the eye Tell me to my face that you did this So I can shove you in the chest So I can glare at you with longing So I can give this black, inexplicable pain a silent voice So you can grasp the back of my head with your nail-scarred hand And burn… Read More
Thornbirds
I sit quietly. The warm wind gusts in fits and starts, like the ache in my heart. Some days, I can barely recollect the pain. Other days, as I open my eyes in the early morning, it’s still hard to breathe. I can never tell when the winds of sorrow are going to blow. They come from out of nowhere and leave as… Read More
Stationary
Did you ever notice that everything God has created is always moving? I was just thinking that this morning. If you want to take a photograph with an insanely slow shutter speed, and you want the background image not to change, that background image will probably have to be man-made. I suppose you could go to the Grand Canyon and… Read More
Our Good, His Best
There was a common phrase floating around in the 1990’s and it echos still, from time to time, among friends and Christian acquaintances, normally met with nodding heads and renewed resolutions to apply its truth to our everyday lives and decision making. The phrase is, simply, “Our good is the enemy of God’s best.” I wonder though, if we have… Read More
Counterfeit Lover
Are you afraid to imagine that God really is that good? Have you caught a glimpse of the reality that all your hopes and dreams are captured with one look at His face? Do you know that He is not a “He”? That the Creator is not just male or just female. God is the “I am”. He is everything. … Read More
The Golden Calf
So the Israelites wanted a golden calf. They wanted what all the other people had ~ something tangible to worship. And yet they had the “pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night” ~ the presence of God being manifested so they could know He was with them. But it wasn’t enough. Because he wasn’t doing… Read More