My father died slowly—nine excruciating months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. When well-meaning friends tried to comfort me with “it is God’s will,” I was furious. Surely God did not intend such torture for my father or his family. We had tried for a cure with everything that Western medicine had to offer—had… Read More
Grace rains down
Do you have a song that you find yourself singing when times are tough. Amazing Grace is that song for me. You can read the story in this article published in Catapult Magazine.
For everything there is a season
Is there a time to be efficient and a time to practice inefficiency? Check out my article in the June issue of Catapult Magazine.
Silent, but deadly
Depression isn’t a dragon That overtly threatens And awakens Vanquishing knights Inside ourselves. Rather, It is a silent enemy That infiltrates And becomes part of the landscape, Assuming more and more prominence Until takeover Is accomplished. To mount an insurrection We must develop A vigilant network Of counter-spies Snooping through the mundane, Sniffing out each… Read More
Oil and Water
Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God! All my life long I’ll praise God, singing songs to my God as long as I live. Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead,… Read More
Osmosis of learning
How do we learn things, absorb them as truth into our inner beings, and consider as truth things we have absorbed by osmosis. (For you scientists out there, I am not using this term in the strict scientific sense, but as a usually effortless, often unconscious assimilation.) Watching a parade with my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson made… Read More
Don’t forget to ask, “Who?”
“He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.” (John1:10 NIV) A baby, hours old, turns her face toward her mother’s voice. She recognizes familiar sounds, soothing and secure from when she was being formed. A dog in the house hears the family’s car turn… Read More
