When Your Soul Longs for Stillness
Multicolored banks of feathery astilbe invite me to be still. To stand and savor. To know that their Creator and mine—the Calmer of chaos and Maker of beauty—is God. And…
When God Commits to Bless You
I’ve long known that God is a blessing God. The very first act God performs after shaping man and woman and breathing into them the breath of life is to…
Praying in Hope When There’s Hell on Earth
Snatching an hour of sunshine, I sit on a bench beneath maple trees, feeling the breeze gentle on my face, the light’s warm fingers caressing my shoulders. The sun-warmed tang…