Category: Living

Living

In the Last Moments of Father’s Day

“I wish all eulogies could be so wonderfully real. We’re born in the honesty of physical nakedness, I wish we could all die in emotional nakedness, with forgiveness following us on our journeys.”

Living

Day Two

“Today was a Day Two kind of day. I felt the weight of sorrow and the comfort of hope. It was a day to be human and to be grateful for salvation. It was gloriously messy and real. And through it all I felt sustained and comforted by a Savior who has been through such a day as this. One who knows the compassion and enduring peace and love that waits on the morning of the third day.”

Living

Know Where to Look

“No matter what we’re experiencing it will change with the passage of time. What is of greatest importance then, in a world where both the view and vantage point are so changeable?

Knowing where to look.”

Living, Writing

Nativity

“Is this call,
To come unto Him,
The invitation to our own
Nativity?
An opportunity for rebirth and
Becoming
A new people, 
Keeping a new covenant 
And ushering in
A new world.”

Living

Mary Knew

“I imagine that she too had to remind herself that it wasn’t all dirty nappies, dirty dishes,  dirty floors, fingers,  and faces. That somewhere in the mundaneness of it all the work of God was happening.  That somewhere in her offering of home, food, learning, and love there was something that would come close to the divinity within him. That somehow in all her mortal weakness there would be something that would help him in the work he would someday perform.”

Living, Writing

Earning My Eulogy

“Because feeling weak is just an idea,

Like worry, or fear, or hope.

And ideas can change

The course of history,

And my own mind.

So while I breathe

And while I stand 

Upon the ground instead of lie within it,

I’ll earn that obituary.”