Psalm 140
Whose jobs are they coming for anyway? I was under the impression that jobs (good and bad) came from the Provider. You think they’re the pestilential ones? What if “the wicked” were closer to home? What if […]
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Whose jobs are they coming for anyway? I was under the impression that jobs (good and bad) came from the Provider. You think they’re the pestilential ones? What if “the wicked” were closer to home? What if […]
It can be terrifying, when someone knows what you’re thinking. A judging look casts shadows on your conscientious, sunbathed emotions: unspoken, sheer in the unwanted backlighting. But there is a grace that fills when it finds character bankrupt. Psalm 139
I am not lowly when I leverage privilege to shout or whine at the tax rate on my shiny, selfish things. I am not lowly when I bemoan loss of newness or bristle at friends when […]
The guilty party goes unpunished, and it feels like justice is an arcade token, limited by trade and arrangement: “Win or lose, but don’t expect power.” But maybe Power waits for the fruit of repentance to grow […]
As I take delight in history I’m so often the ignorant page – marked by happenings but never moved. What if I should be upturned instead of delivered? What if I should be torn down to be […]
If God delights in me, even a little, why shouldn’t I delight in grace more than in self-congratulation? What if God’s little delight is infinite? Shouldn’t grace best me? … But I wander to the […]
Toiling in the mundane seems far from blessedness, but keeping your post, or not leaving it to chance, persists an incarnation of God’s hope on site. Psalm 134
If unity means that we think the same thing, then unity is a lost coin in the leaves. But if it means that we share the selfsame heart, then unity is the clean air after rain. […]
I haven’t been so restless as to suspend everything until your rightful place is situated in my soul. Psalm 132
Hope is not fickle or noncommittal. It doesn’t wait until you’re occupied, pack up memories, relational ties, and “Dear John” your dreams. I do that to Hope. Psalm 131