love – how faint a whisper

and this is love

Today is Valentine’s Day. My last date on Valentine’s Day was in fifth grade, when my dad took me out for breakfast before school and gave me a heart shaped balloon with a teddy bear and the words “I love you” on it. I still have that balloon. Yes, it’s a made up holiday. Yes, it’sContinue reading “and this is love”

while reading Hosea

Sometimes it is evident, Lord, that the wandering and unfaithfulness and adultery of Israel all throughout the Old Testament is less about the general sin nature of man (though I know that is part of it) and more about the preserving and record of an example for us as generations to come – so weContinue reading “while reading Hosea”