One Way to Celebrate God’s Tender Love on this Mother’s Day Weekend
Loving God, you call yourself Father but you also speak of yourself in many mothering images. It’s not surprising, since you are neither male nor female but the One in…
Finding Hope and Rest in the Season of Lent
Almost every Lent, I return to Walter Brueggemann’s essay, “Remember, you are dust.” I return because I need to know all over again that God remembers that I’m dust, and…
When You Wonder What Jesus Thinks of Your Heart
I always delight to see new life peeping out through challenge and hardship and death. Branches scattered on the ground, victims of the most recent wind—and buds, too, fattening on…