Embrace Worship: Roots

Our Georgia backyard is dotted with trees. Towering trees, averaging fifty feet tall! When storms blow in, these trees don’t just sway. They bend. Back and forth, their trunks lean toward the earth, then bounce back the other way like a hold-your-breath kind of highwire dance. We can hardly watch for fear they’ll plop rightContinueContinue reading “Embrace Worship: Roots”

Reigniting Hope: These Three Remain

If we only ever look at the world and our lives with limited nearsightedness, hope plummets. We don’t see a way forward when our lenses are scratched and smudged with despair and cynicism. We fail to believe that how we feel or what we see will ever get better when our vision is hindered –ContinueContinue reading “Reigniting Hope: These Three Remain”

God With Us: Love

Perhaps there is no word more overused in our culture than ‘love.’  Love my family.Love chips and salsa.Love Jane Austen.Love Hallmark Christmas movies.Love a good mystery.Love my Christmas tree.Love my friends.Love a good cup of hot tea. You get the idea. We tend to L.O.V.E. everything. In all our loving, we lose the potency forContinueContinue reading “God With Us: Love”