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…
The Beautiful End of the Story (and a Secret :)
As I drape socks and tops over my laundry rack, the later bits of Handel’s Messiah play in the background, the words straight from Scripture: “I know that my Redeemer…