I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle In The Last Battle, the final volume of The Chronicles of Narnia, Jewel the unicorn finds the…
On Monday mornings, before I get dressed for work, you’ll find me wearing a T-shirt that says, “Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Repeat.” The words on my coffee mug express my mood: “I don’t feel very worky today.” (Yes, “worky” is found in several dictionaries, but you can’t use it in Scrabble.) Once I arrive at work,…
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. (Col. 3:2 ESV) There’s a common admonition among Christians, to “be in the world but not of the world,” but you may wonder what, exactly, this means. Does it mean we don’t engage the world, that we avoid anyone and…
I shifted my weight from one foot to the other and hoped no one would answer my knock. As the door opened in front of me, my heart beat faster. “Uh,” I said as I looked up into the eyes of the adult before me. I was in fourth grade. Every year, my Christian school…
The sunlight filtered through the trees, creating a kaleidoscope of shadows on the trail. Our footsteps were hushed on the dirt path, and the only other sounds carried on the breeze were the songs of both bird and man. I didn’t understand the words of either, but I wanted to hear more of both. As…
Perched on my kitchen barstool, eyes fixed on my laptop screen, I opened a Word document and prepared to write. But social media beckoned, Come see what your friends are doing. Advertisements enticed, Come see what’s on sale. Click bait urged, Stop and read this article. An hour later, my Word doc was still blank….