Do you hear what I hear?

Do you hear what I hear?

Coffee maker signaling the end of the brewing cycle. Alarm clock. AC unit. Birds. Footsteps. The bell on checking in at the gym. Weight machines clanking. Rowing machines swooshing. Water running. Dishwasher rinsing. Utensils against breakfast plates. Diesel engine...
Unforced Rhythms of Life

Unforced Rhythms of Life

We are a besieged people. For thirty months we’ve been mandated to: close down, isolate, mask up, sanitize, sanitize, sanitize, get tested, quarantine, social distance, stay home, and gobs more. Then, we’ve dealt (and continue to deal) with global political mayhem,...
UPDATE: Vineyard East Conference in New Jersey

UPDATE: Vineyard East Conference in New Jersey

Dark, roiling clouds turning mid-afternoon into premature nightfall. Torrents of driving rain, flashes of lightning, thousands of crawling vehicles apprehensively advancing through the ‘car wash,’ cell phones lighting up, red, with a siren warning of flash flooding....
Who reads the last page first?

Who reads the last page first?

Our story, recap: The serpent lied. Adam disobeyed. God declared war. Here we are. (The serpent is still lying. Man is still disobeying. God’s war against lies and disobediences still goes on. And we are still here – in the thick of it.) God loved. Second Adam obeyed....
In the still small voice…

In the still small voice…

Sighting a whale arching up out of the water just to splash back down. Peering a mile down from the rim of the Grand Canyon to its floor. Attending a baby’s birth. Hushing in the stalactite cathedral stillness of a grotto. Craning to look up above the cloud layer to...