… Shake. Everything outside of you moves. And everything inside of you feels it’s either laying low, tumbling, or rolling off. Everything you thought was settled starts jumping or leaning. Ideas, loves, conclusions. They ripple with the earth underneath. Sh is for quiet – when everything goes slow-mo while the eyes watch and time stretches…
God Mining
Thank You for the ability to feel. For accessing wounded places so You can love there. The crying orphan waits in silent ache. Gentleness is…
Behold. Listen.
“Come, behold the works of the LORD, who has wrought desolations in the earth.” Psalm 46:8 This morning my local California sky is yellow. All…
Quiet Heart…
Quiet heart. Perhaps there is nothing better. Even in family, even in community. The quiet heart is at home, at rest, leaning with trust. No…
Twisting
Unfolding – every detail designed. Even the storm that bends the branch, causing it to wind and reach this way and that until time produces…
Sower
The was once a farmer who bought a land with many roads. Any seed he dropped was swept aside by moving feet on the hard,…
Spicy Beloved
“Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you? My beloved…
Happy New Year!
To start 2019, I watched a movie about the life of Jesus. I watched the wonder of all as something/Someone from another world came into…
Deep and High
Not long ago, I went out with two Romanian pastors and a handful of friends including my Psalm class teacher. First the Psalm teacher talked…
Water…
Standing where the waves meet the shore, I feel the waters wash Over my toes and I think Of ships that have been pulled under…