Category Archives: Faithfulness

The Beauty in the Dark

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…

Under Construction

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat. A cacophony of jackhammering awakened me before sunrise—definitely not the sound (or time) I’d set for my alarm! Through the murkiness of sleep I remember the flyer we’d gotten alerting us about the repaving of our neighborhood streets. In the darkness of early morning an army ofRead the Rest…

Ear, Nose, and Toe Check

Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toesRead the Rest…

The Faithful God…

As I stood on the shore, the revelation of the power and majesty of God overwhelmed me. It’s all His. Every bit of it belongs to the God who created it. The creative God, Jehovah-Elohim. The faithful God, Jehovah-Shammah. The God who never breaks a covenant. He can’t because, well,Read the Rest…

Faithful

She walks in the door and every head turns to look at her. Her disheveled hair is black underneath and bleached on top. It is frizzy from a dozen too many perms and not enough TLC. Her jeans and top don’t quite meet in the middle, revealing more than aRead the Rest…