Making Straight the Crooked

  He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.  And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight.  When Jesus saw her, he called her over...

The Tears and the Garden

From The Jungle Book, after Mowgli fights off the deadly tiger Shere Kahn and the wolves who betrayed the pack: “At last, only Akela, Bagheera, and about ten wolves who had been loyal to Mowgli remained. The boy’s knees began to weaken, and a hurt began to...

The Room Full of Darkness (an invitation for Lent)

I wrote this poem this past December and then let it sit for a good long while.  Now it seems to me that it has something to do with Lent and Jesus’ invitation to follow him into the desert for these forty days.  When I wrote it, I was thinking of...

When Winter is Gray and the Fog Rolls In

“Anger is the cloak sadness wears.” – anonymous It was one of those gray, soggy January days.  Ice and fog wrapped the world in a cold mist and I had been trapped at home nursing sick children for over two weeks.  So I piled the kids into...

He Runs Through the Night For Her (Lessons in Bravery)

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!” Isaiah 6:8 My two oldest children, four and six, share a room far enough away from my own upstairs bedroom that my husband and I keep a monitor on...
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