Be a Dreaming Soil

Wendell Berry writes, “The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil…

Mother, Motherhood

Motherhood doesn’t come with a manual or “assembly rules” for putting together great human beings. Instead, motherhood is a continuous…

Folded in Easter

A chilled breeze blows through the colorful cemetery. The dead are lulled by the shushing of trees and the chirping…

The Day The Blossoms Fall

Outside my window trees are in bloom. Being under the canopy of blooming trees is like stepping into a magical…

Life, Death, and Words

[Moses] said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall…

Perfect Words in Hard Times

Circumstances are the expression of God’s will Bishop Handley Moule The beautiful dichotomy of preaching while being persecuted frames Jesus’…

Don’t. Stop. Running

When I run, the world moves and I move along with it. The heart pounds in my head as if…

Imagining the Devil

I am reading for the first time the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. In this satirical novel written in epistolary…

Surprised by Alaska

When my husband announced that he was planning to take me to Alaska, I shrugged my shoulders and reluctantly agreed,…