We stood tonight in the dimmed light, candles flickering in our hands, and the organ soft, just enough to guide our voices. The familiar words washed over like comfort, one of my favorite moments of Christmas each year, and always I want the song to last longer than it does. There’s something about that spaceContinue reading “the waiting joy of Christmas”
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my Father’s Word
I sit on my bed, sunlight and summer warmth streaming through the blinds, the world fully awake outside my windows, but I don’t have to enter it yet. Only the intangible and unwritten calls for my time and attention today. That which is most important and too often first overlooked. I reach for and openContinue reading “my Father’s Word”
joy is…
these guys… pirate faces… my brother as a father… and that he brought us this girl. Joy is 10 years of friendship with these girls… that has lasted through lives that look just a little different than they once did. Joy is this miracle turning one: and this kind of freedom… and this face. Joy isContinue reading “joy is…”
a childlike joy
Yesterday morning I sat doing some work while my two-year-old nephew played nearby. He had his favorite stacking cups all laid out on the chair next to me and would lift each one up in turn, loudly proclaiming its number and color, then run with it over to the next room, where he was carefullyContinue reading “a childlike joy”
how faint a whisper 