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 God Sends You a 14-Word Love Note
“God who loves us creates us and wants to share life with us forever.” (Ignatius of Loyola, tr. David Fleming) I’ve been sitting with these words recently, and I’m a…
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…