I feel the roughness of his fingers as they intertwine with mine. He’s talking. “At what point, in the church, will we begin to call arrogance sin?” I feel the question to my bones. “It’s easy to pick on topics that aren’t personal to us. There’s plenty that I don’t deal with. It’s easy to…
The forests of my childhood were wrought with adventures and breathtaking beauty. Land marks set boundaries and our world spanned several acres of wooded terrain. One boundary was the Man-Made Cave, which was called that simply to differentiate between it and the bear cave on the other side of campus. It was dark and damp,…
I think of it as the summer I learned love. My move to the little house with the apple tree and lilac bushes was marked in my mind for a reason far deeper than a change of residence. It was the summer the doctor looked at me sadly and said that children would never be…
It was around lunchtime when my thoughts began spinning. All morning had gone by and I hadn’t thought of anything but myself. I was busy living life, without thought or concern for the things of God. I wanted to argue… did it matter? Did God even care about the details of my life at all?…
I could tell that life was wearing him down. Maybe it was the quiet way he opened the door. Or perhaps the deep slow breaths. Whatever it was that tipped me off, I turned, ready for the look of defeat. “I don’t know how to fix it.” The words are clipped and rough. I don’t…
When we first got our cows, milking took all of my mental focus to accomplish. How to make sure everything in the milk house is ready so the milk went into the tank and not onto the floor. How to hold the milker-unit just right so it wouldn’t break suction. How to work efficiently enough to…
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