Horror and Outrage

December 18, 2012 By

Cadence, Sawyer, Elaine: Group Hug Beyond Imagination We mourn together for lives cut short in an ugly blast of gunfire. One moment, twenty beautiful young students and the adults entrusted with their education were studying the chalkboard, perhaps, or bent over worksheets.  And then suddenly, we were all robbed of their lives. A nation grieves […]


Filed Under: blessing, Compassion International, death, God's omnipotence, grief, poverty, Psalm 82, rescue

A Strawberry’s Grace

August 31, 2012 By

A Goblet of Summer’s Grace A Summer’s LessonIn my youth, strawberries rewarded effort. We washed them, we sliced them, we sprinkled them with a bit of sugar, then we enjoyed them, lifted up to lips parched with the waiting for that first sweet taste. Sometimes we spooned them over ice cream, or slid a ladle’s […]


Filed Under: blessings, faith, Genesis 1, gifts, God's omnipotence, provision, redemption, rescue

Come as You Are!

June 15, 2012 By

Just as You Are. Right Now. Even if Your Sweater is Crooked.  Humbled, not DiscouragedA passage in my Bible struck me as I read it a few days ago. I’ve read this passage before, but on this occasion it leaped off the page. “Don’t wait until you’re ready,” I heard.  I’m sharing the passage here […]


Filed Under: 2 Chronicles 30, dependence, freedom, God's omnipotence, Hezekiah, mystery, obedience, rescue, Romans 5, salvation

The Reunion

February 27, 2012 By

My Brother, Cousin Marcia, Cousin Hugh. Ca. 1969. [Click here to read the beginning of this story. Click here to read its conclusion.]   Walking the Ruins We pull into the parking lot and panic overwhelms me. I glance at my cousin Hugh in the back seat and see, for the first time, what others […]


Filed Under: courage, family, glory, God's omnipotence, grace, reconciliation, rescue, Romans 3

Sean’s Last Rescue

June 8, 2011 By

Graveside on the Fourth Anniversary. September 25, 2010. I Didn’t Know I was Starving: My Testimony Last week my friend Laura Boggess’s compelling words set down roots deep in my mind, tangling synapses as I tried to hear their message for me. She wrote: It takes strong faith to plant a seed.I remember a missionary […]


Filed Under: cross, death, God's omnipotence, grief, John 3, rescue, resurrection, salvation
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