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The Avocado "Have you asked him for forgiveness?" I could feel the indignation, the self-righteous anger rising within me as I read the message. Me, ask him for forgiveness? I was the injured party! I wanted to scream and throw the phone across the room. Didn't she know? Yet... Yet, there was that still small v...

CHASMAL

Entombed between rock
and roaring water
Lost to sound
lost to the beyond
I could
stay
here
down a hill dotted with white trillium
and foam flowers
and Japanese knotweed
Decaying stumps blanketed with
bright green moss
and a leather of wet leaves
I could
stay
here
I rub orange clay between fingers
sooty grit and ridges
till my hands are copper
rinsed in amber water
They emerge
altered
changed
"Isn't that why you came?"
I hear whispered
between the droplets of the cascade
And I know,
I cannot
stay.

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Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Philippians 3:13 - Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

John 5:8 - Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

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Hey God, Hold My Beer, and Watch This! There’s this moment in the wilderness where the Israelites are on the cusp of taking the Promised Land (Numbers 13). Moses has sent out 12 spies, and they have come back from scouting out the land and confirmed that the land is flowing with milk and honey. They’ve even brought back a giant clust...

Boundaries "I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it." (Jeremiah 5:22 NIV) I was talking to a friend yesterday, she's getting ready to turn 93. She has been following Jesus since she was....

The Message in the Details - What I Learned from a Butterfly That’s such a hard question to answer, but just like sailors used to watch the skies to tell them if the seas would be conducive for sailing, I believe God speaks to us in whispers in the details of the world around us.

King David, the Threshing Floor, and Me So what was I to do? What did David do? David, as I, desperately wished to keep his failures from taking any more lives. He cried out to God to make the plague stop, and to spare those who were innocent. God's response was the threshing floor. The threshing floor is where I have been for some time n...

How Will You Get to the Cross This Easter? Our wilderness is often a result of our own making or of things that make us uncomfortable. Being absent of a comfort for 40 days sounds miserable. Why would we choose to step into that wilderness intentionally? Jesus did.

Embracing Wide Open Intimacy: Why Deep Connections Matter In my previous post, I talked about God's process of chiseling away the sinful, hard, unyielding places of my heart and the parts of me I try to conceal. I encourage you to read that post first - here.Part of what I uncovered in that experience was the revelation that true intimacy in any relationsh...

Surrender: What Do We Carry? Part 2 I’ve resisted a bit (ok – a lot – still resisting to certain degrees) with what I’m about to write. I resisted for a year the word that has become my word for 2025 – that is not to say I’ve fully accepted it, but I’ve acknowledged that it is my word: Surrender. Last year, when my life ...

On Pride and the Chisel Are there areas of your life that God desires to rearrange or remove from you in order to make you more like Him? Have you yielded that part to Him?

Footprints: What Do You Carry? Part 1 I have been thinking a lot about that poem ‘Footprints in the Sand,’ specifically those last few lines where it says; “When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.” Me being me, I couldn’t help but compare it to when the boys and I were at the beach this past Oc...

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Scars - How an Aged Tree Taught Me to Bear Fruit This tree is in my back yard....this morning looking out my kitchen window I noticed those dead vines hanging from its branches and those scars along its trunk and I'll be honest there was some satisfaction.