Eugene Peterson, the wordsmith who translated the Bible into The Message, one of my favorite places to go to turn life into moving picture shows, says “The people who find themselves called and led and commanded by God find themselves in the company of men and women who sin a lot-quarrel, bicker, grumble, rebel, fornicate, …
Hanging on to a crumpled list of “what to do’s or else”…..else I wouldn’t meet the criteria for whomever held the magic wand of approval…….I choked back life like bad medicine. It felt a curious tangle inside my head, like leaning in close to a radio trying to listen through the static. I wanted to, …
It’s difficult to grab the pieces of yourself that are breaking off before they fall to the floor when you have a coffee pot in your hands. My eyes looked out hollow, my heart beat listless and thick. “What if….what if you just let yourself fall apart?”, he said. I sucked in breath, like I’d …
Mark 14:15-52 “Now a certain young man having a linen cloth wrapped around his naked body, was following Him. They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth behind and ran away naked.” I skimmed past those words to the next ones, the way you do when you’re not paying attention to the …
This will be difficult. This will be my story. My very particular, personal messy story. I shake in my boots….the rubbery kind I wore when I was a kid that you pull over your “real” shoes? Because that’s what it feels like to talk out loud and brave; like my nine year old self standing …