Quiet Lights: Advent Wonder in Your Inbox

  Dinner time at our house is often insane, well, make that always insane.  But every once in awhile, when I’ve had it up-to-here with the volume and intensity, I set a few small candles in the center of the table and turn off the overhead...

Tell Me Again (of shadows and faith)

Last night, in a charming bid to avoid bedtime, one of my three-year-olds asked me, “Where does shadows go?”  I stood in the dark doorway explaining about darkness and light until they seemed satisfied.  Then, when the other boy woke at 3 am in a...

Morning Devotions

Kneeling on the cold stone hearth each morning, facing yesterday’s ashes cold and gray as death,  ignites a necessary humility.    Today’s fire must be made from what lies at hand – life and heat coaxed from pages of an old newspaper, ...

Gathering Mystery (a poem)

Eggs arrive  one-a-day, like manna.   We run  to check the nest box, Israelites leaping at first light, hands open, to gather the mystery of provision from  unlikely places.   Photo Credit. Linking with Playdates with God and the Unforced...
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