We get angry and then we get to choose what will become of our anger. Will we let God shape it into a force of loving defiance of the evil?  Will we let it reinforce our courage and resolve? Will… Continue reading

" … the land mourns …" I often drive around my city. Often, I mourn. I see all of this and more. God, please don't stop breaking my heart for the cities. Keep me tender and wounded within for the… Continue reading

  Shine, rising sun upon these steps I take.It is a dark world this morning, but it is morning.Early, comes morning and only hopeful people venture forth.The world is dark. Is it?Then why is it that I see the road… Continue reading

Father … I am a "dis-tractable" soul. You know that and I know that and I am amazed how You have accommodated that in me and taught me to manage within the margins of my "dis-tractability" to find a tract… Continue reading

Life is a process. Real life is no shallow exercise of mundane motions, but an interwoven tapestry of threads that journey through, across, and deep within the relationships of many threads and weaves until a unity emerges. Here is Psalm… Continue reading

  "Theotokos" means "God-bearer."  Rachmaninov composed it as a tribute to Mary, who bore the Son of God and in whom God was incarnate, appealing to her prayers on our behalf. That being said, are you not a God-bearer in… Continue reading

In Psalm 88, the singer of psalms is distressed and overwhelmed with a sense of alienation. He feels that his condition is so revolting that his friends, loved ones, and even God cannot bear to look upon him. He cannot… Continue reading

  Are you "stuck" in work you feel is insignificant and at the lowest place on the chain of importance? Are you doing menial work when you feel you have a greater calling? Look at David. His entire schooling was… Continue reading

We don’t want to hear it or admit it, but sometimes we hate people more than we love God. We are sitting under our dead bushes, looking over the city where we have misrepresented God as hateful and malicious because… Continue reading

Khumbaya, my Lord! Come by here.Yes. Yes. Yes.Make a way.Come and speak..Come and touch.Come and lead.Come and sit awhile among us.Come, instruct us.Come, teach us.Come and correct the errors of our ways … including …Several misconceptions of You and how we… Continue reading