He didn’t mean to unearth it, didn’t know it was hiding so deep beneath the surface, out of sight and decades in the shadows. But that’s what love does, it presses in so close and so invasively, that fears and shame are forced to come out from their closets and give up their game of […]

I hadn’t seen it before, the way I’d been leaving Him there, waiting. Ironically, I thought I was the one waiting on Him and He the one delaying in answer. Then it dawned on me. I’d lost capacity. And He was waiting, with kindest eyes, until I prepared Him room again. And the tears came […]

Whether we call it eschatology or end-times, sometimes we distance ourselves from the subject of Jesus’ Return without even realizing it. Our hesitance could be due to the  the many differing opinions that arise, or the strange symbols we see in the book of Revelation. Or maybe it’s because the subject only conjures thoughts of the troubles surrounding that […]

As a child, I sat across the table weekly from a father who’s eyes welled fresh tears every time he talked about the Man Christ Jesus. Something had happened to him in his twenties — he’d caught a vision, seen the beauty, and been undone by the heart of that God-Man — and Dad never […]

Circumstances can be such that we quit breathing. Fear, or anxiety, or pain, serve us a blow and we hold our breath, unwittingly — our prayers caught somewhere in our throats. We forget the oxygen of lifting our voice to the Lord. We don’t always realize when we’ve cut off our life-source –- when we’ve sealed […]

I watched him wipe his girl’s tears away, one by one, as she sat lankily in his lap, the little girl that used to be his baby, now so grown. And I wiped my own tears quietly as I watched from a step away, knowing that childhoods are marked forever by moments such as these. […]