Last month I wrote a devotion called "Downsizing to Divine Food," an excerpt from an unfinished book of mine called Downsizing to the Divine. A sweet reader contacted me and shared her struggle and weariness from years of too much "church" and not enough Jesus. I think we all have the potentialRead the Rest…
Five years ago I started writing a book with the title, Downsizing to the Divine. Despite encouragement for my book proposal at the time, I never finished it, and doubt I ever will. Sometimes writing is about the learning . . . actually, writing is always about learning. When I recentlyRead the Rest…
To love beauty is to see light. -Victor Hugo Some may say there’s no beauty to be seen in the dark . . . perhaps believe that darkness is the absence of light . . . or preach that only dark things happen in the dark. But notRead the Rest…
God is magnificent; he can never be praised enough. There are no boundaries to his greatness. Psalm 145:3 MSG Margins. The outside limits. The white space beyond the words. The boundary lines of life, the edges of the impossible. I live here. In the margins, between the margins, and sometimes beyond them. IRead the Rest…
The Christmas tree is twinkling and the Nutcracker ballet is playing in the background as I prepare dinner. The obnoxious ring of a cell phone interrupts the tranquility of the moment and my first impulse is to hit "mute" and get back to the onions turning brown on the stove.Read the Rest…
