Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

His Last Words, By Heart

This Wednesday Ann invites us to share “What you’ve memorized of late: write it out and take a photo, upload a video, type it out, share an audio — might we too meet and speak God-Words to each other?”
I took the challenge and typed out what I have memorized so far (over the past 12 [...]

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

In My Breath (again)

Ann said, “I have no idea why I have stopped teaching my heart. Why I’ve wandered from the practice of daily memorization.” And because I’m wondering the same about myself, I’m thinking of this again (originally posted December 2009).
The statement is true: if I seek the Lord, I will find Him. I found [...]

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

In My Breath

The statement is true: if I seek the Lord, I will find Him. I found Him that cold day.
On a cold day the boys wanted to play and run at the park. Being a fair-weather athlete, I did not. It was the kind of cold that made your breath visible, the kind [...]

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

And My Heart Responds

She stuffed the cavity of her dad’s absence with the pain of missing, but it did not fill exactly right. For six months she would not see her dad except in photos, and she had exactly twelve. When she missed him painfully, she looked and looked at those one dozen photos. One [...]