All that ever was
What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. – Frederick Buechner
Recent Posts
Passing Shadows
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much […]
Remodeling
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are […]
Sources of Strength
The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we’d all pile into the car – I forgot what kind it was – and drive and drive. I’m not sure where we’d go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell […]
Primal by Mark Batterson
Maybe it’s time to admit that we don’t know all the answers. But we know the One who does. Maybe we’ve been offering the wrong thing. We offer answers. God offers a relationship through Jesus Christ. His answer to our questions isn’t knowledge. It’s a relationship. And that relationship is […]
Deep Thoughts
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. – Jack Handey
Moments of Grace
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, […]
The Meaning of the 12 Days of Christmas
I summarized this from the book 25 Days, 26 Ways to Make this your Best Christmas Ever by Ace Collins. Historically, the first day of Christmas was December 25. This placed the twelfth and final day on January 6. Day 1: A partridge in a pear tree – Christ is symbolically presented […]
