Isaiah 61:3

This past winter California has experienced an abundance of rain that has produced what experts call a “super bloom”; a blanket of wildflowers that grow along the hills and in the deserts that take your breath away. From February to April, people travel and pull off the side of the highway…

a. Praise have the capacity to execute judgement upon our enemies b. Through praise, we have power over king and nobles; it says to bind their kings with chains. c. Praise ignite……

Fall is on display in all its glory in the photo above. This tree is planted in a friend’s front yard in Michigan. The resulting beauty and stunning colors came by way of a transformation. What started out one way, has changed into something else. Similarly, there seems to be a process of change, g…

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. Keats, sitting down to read King Lear again, feels torn between anticipation and the dread of immersing himself again in this scabrous tragedy. Once again the fierce dispute, Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay Must I burn through; once more humbly assay The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian […]…

Never underestimate the potential of a seed buried deep within the ashes.…

YOUR MOUTH & YOUR MIDNIGHT & THE POWER OF DIVINE FAVOUR a. Praise have the capacity to execute judgement upon our enemies b. Through praise, we have power over king and nobles;……

That hilarious little Irene has been following Roy and I around with her laptop, recording our conversations, then playing them back to us. “Could some gift the giftie give us/To hear ourselves as others hear us!” Zoe has been in a Shakespeare workshop at the Oxford Playhouse; the strain of a week with just me and […]…

This Sunday, May 3, is officially National Widows Day, a day to raise awareness of the challenges widows face. Every day, approximately 2800 women become widows. According to the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, the loss of a spouse is the most stressful event a person will experience. Like most days…

It seems like just yesterday when Harvey ruthlessly ravaged the coast of Texas (among other places), leaving countless people without homes and the means to sustain themselves. Now here we are, almost 7 months after, and the effects are still inflicting misery. People are still struggling, fighting…

Revising the plot! When our lives seems to have run into the desert sands of barrenness, and we wonder if we’ve lost our way, constant prayer can bring a surprising plot reversal–beauty from ashes, streams in the desert–rescuing one from inexorable cause and effect; sin/weakness and its consequences. It can rewrite the direction and […]…