O Lord, our Rock and our Refuge in times of trouble, there is indeed a longing in our hearts for you. The brokenness of the world seems to have run its banks this week. In times of both joy and...
Tag: Hope
Walking With Hope
Yesterday’s suffering is still real and lasting even in the face of today’s miracle.
How Long? :: Psalm 6
O LORD, do not rebuke us in your anger, or discipline us in your wrath. Be gracious to us, O LORD, for we are languishing; O LORD, heal us, for our bones are shaking with terror. Our soul also is...
#prayforparis
This desperate need for security is largely driven by our culture’s fear of death. Death is inevitable.
Why do we Have to Die? – Part 2
All Saints Day is coming up on November 1. This is a day where we remember those who have died in the faith. It is a day we remember that in life and death, we belong to Christ. This is...
A Day Like any Other Day (Reprise)
Eldest's first day of kindergarten c. 2004 (and Youngest wearing one of Eldest's new shirts and getting the news that he does not get to go to school). School is back in session! The boys and I tried to live...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon,...
A Little Bit of Crazy
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, I was with the exiles at the Chebar River when the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. (It happened on the fifth day of the month,...


