The opening of the new year and the lingering quiet of January is always a sacred space to me. It’s a time to reflect and renew and recalibrate. And always at the top of my reflections and prayers for renewed fervor … Read more
Did that little girl from Bethany that was once in her twenties wake up one day in her thirties – or forties – with a tinge of regret? Shades of loss hanging over her like a storm cloud, for the … Read more
We stood looking out into the golden setting sun – barely past our twentieth birthdays – our lives like spanned horizons themselves, waiting for dawning colors. “Unnecessary beauty,” I said. “He could have made the whole thing black and white! … Read more
The years sprawl out behind me, like an unfurled scroll of well-worn and tear-stained words – the times and seasons that were once my future – now my history. What was once a trembling question mark of what a burning … Read more
He sits looking over the balcony, weaving as He watches. A golden strand in His hand, He weaves it into the garment as an eternal witness of this moment…this flash of time. Garments interwoven with gold (Ps. 45: 13, 14). … Read more
How much am I worth to you? This the question that He asks a thousand times in a thousand ways – both direct and indirect to every believer’s soul – and it sifts through me swiftly, weighing His worth within … Read more
Anything that cools the flames of love, John Wesley said, that is what ‘the world’ is. The little phrase has stayed with me all week. For in our approach to passages like the following, we often treat the world as … Read more