Daily observations about following Jesus
When you pick up a book of poetry or a book of song lyrics, you have to work. You cannot read Gerard Manley Hopkins or W.H. Auden or Bono the same way you read Malcolm Gladwell or Donald Miller. With poems, you have to stop often, read out loud at times, look in your heart […]
Read More…“Oh God.” That will be our prayer, God, many of us as we look at the clock for the first time on Monday morning, as we roll over and slap the alarm, as we feel the crush of realizing we have no idea where we left off in whatever projects are facing us. Hear our […]
Read More…There was a man in front of me at church on Sunday. The long blond hair on his shoulder wasn’t his wife’s. But I wasn’t worried. It was her wig’s. They have spent the year learning about chemo and radiation. The woman with her hands in the air, singing isn’t with her husband. It’s because […]
Read More…The other day, Megin wondered about journaling prayer. I think it’s a great question. I think that sometimes, David prayed with a pen. The book of Psalms includes some of those prayers. They reflect honesty and vulnerablity. They aren’t pretty or polite. But neither is good conversation. 1. With a loud frustrated voice. I cry […]
Read More…(This is the fourth of a few posts on Psalm 4, written as a followup to Oscar Hammerstein and reading the Bible) But what do I do? That’s a huge question in a life of faith. We may believe in God, but what does that look like behaviorally (other than going to church on Sunday […]
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