100 Words of Wisdom: Chasing
It’s restless panic. Strange urgent-fear paralysis. Relentless driving breathless chasing. Always chasing. Everyone everywhere – chasing. In the mall, in the mirror – chasing. We chase the common culprits: Possessions. Pleasure. Prestige (1 John 2:16) – in whatever shape or form or handheld device they come. We chase the subtle lures that have us whipped […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 18
On various levels of life’s layered depths it’s been a good-news-bad-news week. But thanksgiving is a way through – a way to live fully – fully alive to God’s glory. Whether his ways are clear, or beyond tracing out. This week’s 39 things: 664 Opening blinds – morning wintery sun 665 Closing blinds – snug […]
100 words of wisdom: Glass
It comes in kaleidoscopes of beauty and brutality. Stained cathedral-stories high and brilliant. Beer bottle jagged-bloody. Pebbly marbles reflecting smooth. Old vase loving kitchen roses. Dusty panes made soapy-clean for bright day. Cracked tumbler swilling something strong. Like people. Different. Fragile. And people? We’re broken. So we cut. Others bleed. ‘But where are my sharp edges?’ you […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 13: PASSION
If there’s one week in the year when every Christ-follower should look up from the sludge of life and bask in eucharisteo, it’s this one. As you celebrate how the suffering of Jesus set you free, open your heart-eyes to his mercies, new every morning for this world, new every morning for you. Oh God, […]
