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7 mins read|01/05/16I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.
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2 mins read|12/28/15O bloody town of Bethlehem, How shrill we hear thee cry. Your mothers shriek while fathers weep The graveyard lullaby.
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6 mins read|09/18/15I stumbled down labyrinthine paths, crawled in and out of cavernous pits, got lost a million times, and somehow ended up a little farther down the road to healing. Yet in all those crooked lines I see the hand of God writing straight.
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9 mins read|03/03/15If Abel’s blood is spilled all over the ground or if a mere speck had been lodged in the fabric of Cain’s shirt, that blood cries out. It has a voice and it will speak to whomever is willing to listen.
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13 mins read|02/26/15There are several reasons why I nerd out when it comes to AMC’s The Walking Dead.
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4 mins read|11/08/14The pastor put a hand over my mouth, another between my shoulder blades, and backward I fell into the dark waters, buried beneath Noah's flood, the Red Sea, Jordan's stream, all the way down into a borrowed tomb outside Jerusalem where a crucified man lay waiting for me.
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7 mins read|11/04/14King has some kind of belief in God, but was probably under no inner compulsion to do anything we would term evangelism.
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9 mins read|07/29/14The psalmist writes that our earthly lives last “seventy years, or eighty, if we have the strength.” As if proving the poet right, and showing the world that she did have that kind of strength, Alvena fought on to her eightieth year.
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12 mins read|07/11/14Because I do care now, and will care even after I’m with the Lord, here are some things I hope and pray are not said at my funeral. I care about those who will be there, about what they will hear.
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12 mins read|06/27/14Every year, when this day rolls around, I turn over the stones of remembrance that litter my mind, to see what lurks beneath.
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4 mins read|06/20/14My life will be unwritten, erased by the hand of mortality. And fool that I am, I stand here threatening to snuff out the life of a woman caught in the act which I have acted out in my heart with a thousand women.
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6 mins read|04/12/14I am lord of all I eat. I lord it over meat, potatoes, pecan pie. I make those foods serve my body, transforming them into me. But it is not so with the meal of Jesus.
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