Ponderings
Letter to a Traumatized Friend
Dear One, By the time you get this note you will be about half-way through the trauma program. You are missed, my dear friend! Something happened with my rescue puppy, Samwise, this morning that reminded me, again, of the effects of trauma. I used to put his food in a bowl under the utility sink in the…
A Poem for Christmas
Welcome Word: Speak life. Create all. Welcome Light: Shine glory. Illumine all. Welcome Flesh: Dwell full. Engrace all.
Preparing for a King
In the second week of Advent I have been pondering what it means to prepare a highway for Jesus. This Advent highway has a wonderful word picture: Every valley shall be lifted up,and every mountain and hill be made low;the uneven ground shall become level,and the rough places a plain (Isaiah 40:4). It is, first,…
Waiting for Jesus
When I was a child there was a lot more talk about the second coming of Jesus. I was too young to get caught up in the theological debates about when and how Jesus was coming back, only that he was coming. And while, even as an adult, I have never found much interest in…
Just Under the Surface
I first discovered the “desert fathers” in Henri Nouwen’s little book, The Way of the Heart. His book was a such a gentle beginning to what I continue to find as a deeply Biblical, existentially honest look at the interior life. Nouwen did not speak, as the Desert Fathers did, about the “demons” in my soul. Rather, he spoke…
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