“On Wednesday morning, the first rays of sun were peeking around the clouds,” my daughter Charity wrote. “I swung my legs over the edge of the bed. Strange dizziness clouded my mind. I have a fever, I thought. I must be getting sick. Objects around me seemed to move with each turn of my head….
Do you have forbidden places in your mind? Those moments, events, or phases of your past that you just don’t let yourself revisit? Maybe it was a time of financial difficulty when you found yourself huddled around a space heater because your gas had been shut off. Maybe it was a phase of willful rebellion…
I’m a worship leader by trade, and for the past year or so, music has been hard for me. I know this probably seems strange coming from someone whose career is fully entrenched in music, but at some point, it simply stopped bringing me joy and started to feel like work. This medium from which…
He didn’t ask questions. He didn’t give a lecture. He didn’t sulk or give the silent treatment. He ran. His arms were open. He bestowed gifts. He restored. Do you forgive others the way the prodigal’s father forgave him? I will be the first to admit I do not. Permit me a brief recap of…
Growing up, I don’t know if I ever heard the term Maundy Thursday. I was taught what Scripture tells us about the events leading to the cross. I may have even attended a church service on the Thursday before Easter, but if I did, I didn’t know it had a specific name. When I was in…
Driving with two of my boys (ages two and four) to the grocery store can be entertaining, but I never know if I’ll get happy kids, crying kids, interested-in-what’s-going-on-outside kids, or demanding-a-movie kids. This time a movie wasn’t possible because we’d driven Daddy’s car, but I heard this animated request from the backseat: “Let’s play…