Bare necessities & fluffy unicorns
This morning I felt like I needed to write a blog – one that was a departure from the last here-are-my-guts blogs written in obedience to an Unseen God. Instead of feet in miry clay, I chipped out a really…
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This morning I felt like I needed to write a blog – one that was a departure from the last here-are-my-guts blogs written in obedience to an Unseen God. Instead of feet in miry clay, I chipped out a really…
I haven’t written a word and the tears are already falling. How could this be? Last night, Howard and I fell into bed after a full day: a 3.5 mile run, a conversation about a Good Shepherd and how stupid…
Years ago, I spouted off the too little I knew about the Bible and crushed somebody's spirit. I was showing off. And since that day, I can read my Bible for hours and not retain any intellectual memory of what…
So many things we don't know. The age and contents of that ziploc bag in the corner of the fridge. Who's going to win the Superbowl. What's going to happen in the next year or month or week or moment. …
Study the picture to the right. Scrunch up your face, get really close to the screen – grab a magnifier if you have to – and read the copy beneath the AP photo. "Two Coptic Christians ward off Coptic youths…
Perhaps it is time for a confession. I am weary of words. Weary of the advertising messages that I have helped push over 20+ years weary of the stuff I read weary of the word games I've played on my…
It's a new year, Oh Boy. Why all the fuss? Yesterday, as Howard and I drove through the rain, we talked about why we each could take New Years' hoopla or leave it. He's not convinced. I'm a little more…
This is not a post I want to write. Not now. Not today as so many grieve and as bewilderment fights for our joy. I've put it off. But some things must be done and some nudges are relentless in…
Well, despite what a few Mayans had to say, the world is still here. And like Michael Stipe & REM, I feel fine. Or maybe this is the end of the world and though the fluffy unicorns, streams of Starbucks,…