It’s 5:45 a.m. I am desperately reaching to find my phone. Its alarm is set on the lowest volume possible so I can shut it off before it is heard by Hayden, who sleeps across the hall. He is 8 years old, a lover of life, and doesn’t mind in the least starting each day […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read 1 Peter 1:23-25 (NRSV) You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living […]

“We do not know… how can we know the way?” Courageous master of the awkward question, You spoke the words the others dared not say And cut through their evasion and abstraction. Oh doubting Thomas, father of my faith, You put your finger on the nub of things We cannot love some disembodied wraith, But […]