It’s December. It’s that month of the year with the greatest paradox of speed and slowness — when we set our hearts to linger together in love, wonder and awe at the One who came to us (and is coming again), and yet, simultaneously, life barrels us over in busyness — with the force of …

 “She did what she could.” His words came like a knife, cutting short the scornful looks of the brothers – those young men who’d eventually become the fathers of the faith (Mk. 14:8). As they hovered over the fragrant perfume seeping into the dust, they didn’t have the foresight to see how all of Church …

I didn’t know how to plan for that day — those weeks and months — when that test of overwhelming heartache came. It came in the form that we all face, in failures of relationships and the hardships with those we love. Yes, our Lord knew the road ahead of His friends that night when …

Out my window they were singing again this morning, those little birds that deliver sermons without words. They were singing once more, persistently and full throttle, absolutely tireless in their refrains. And it pierced my heart again, pierced right through the heavy weariness that had somehow crept in, unexpectedly. Songs from little bursting breasts convicting me …

He draws near to my heart uplifted and does what I don’t expect. Swiftly, He blows with that breath like wind, and then I see what I couldn’t see before. Flying with the gust of His breath scatter the little gatherings of my soul I’d been collecting unaware and stockpiling at the surface. These little …

Sometimes it’s the fullest and best moments with those I love that catch me off guard with their achiness for Jesus – and with their touch of God. It’s when the man I married when he was only a boy – the one who now knows me better than anyone else – speaks that truth, …