God holds us in the untamed moments too.
When it gets dark, it's only because god has tucked me in a cleft of the rock and covered me, protected, with His hand? In the pitch, I feel like I'm falling, sense the bridge giving way, God long abs...
Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our live...
Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.
Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, thr...
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, ext...
From the Basement tapes Eric outdid Dylan with the apologies. To the untrained eye, he seemed sincere. The psychologists on the case found Eric less convincing. They saw a psychopath. Classic. He even...
I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.
We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move throu...
A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.
Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.
Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening to. --Alex Kava, NY Times Bestselling Crime Novelist
It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough
Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency.
You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.
The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.
(And also like Satan, I'm a beautiful loser.)
Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain w...
