Stories that Bridge Heart and Heaven
Rocking Hinge What Easter message will the doctor deliver? (refer: On Joyful Sorrow) I sit with my eighty-eight-year-old mother in the doctor’s office waiting for the verdict. Her first chest Continue Reading →
Joyful Embrace What a relief when Lent is over and Easter arrives. After the ardour of a long and trying Lent, we fall joyful into the arms of Easter. Love’s Continue Reading →
Hard to Take Holy Week Holy Week is taxing. It’s a whirlwind of exchange–a roller coaster ride of emotional ups and downs (for the full biblical stories check out: Math Continue Reading →
Seed Faith Unpack your kit and get started. Don’t worry you don’t have enough tools or all the right ones. Start the job. Whatever little you have is enough. “… Continue Reading →
Forty Days of Trials, Probation and Testing The number forty is significant throughout the bible. Biblical scholars suggest the number is not so much a signal of literal days or Continue Reading →
A Fragile Mantle Social media adds to the competing voices in our heads. There is so much and so many. Like heavy rainfall pounding a coat-less body one becomes deluged, Continue Reading →
Evil Nearby It doesn’t bear to think of evil’s influence nearby (Faith Unfurled Back Corner Evil: https://wp.me/p89n5f-cN). And I don’t know the murdered woman found in her basement apartment on Saturday. Reports Continue Reading →
Bad Stuff Happens It’s not something I give a lot of thought. A black and white subject with fundamentalist undertones sometimes delivered with fire and brimstone drama, the notion makes Continue Reading →
More Christmas Days Stretching Christmas Day 10: Christmas Day ten includes an unexpected gift. It is like the present you ask for but don’t receive on the day. The late Continue Reading →
Twelve Days of Christmas to Stretch How thankful I am that many Christian church calendars allow Christmas to stretch over twelve days–disappointing otherwise all that build up and over in Continue Reading →