Black earth has a sanctity to it. The color calls to us from a damp, ancient place where life comes from death. It’s the call of richness, of fertility, of potential. Black soil is the home of all things green and godly. And that makes perfect sense. All that’s green and godly comes from the […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. Her 89-year-old frame shuffled slowly and gracefully into the dining room. She was brittle, her bones buttressed on the left by a worn, wooden cane. “Oooh . . . such a beautiful table!” None of us had said that. None of us were 89 years old either. The table […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure: I’m a producer by nature. I love to make things with words. I find a thrill in pushing towards the final product. And then when I get there, my eyes are already on the next thing. Sometimes (a lot of times) it’s hard for me to slow […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. “Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.” — Dean Koontz Buckley was our first dog. (We named him after a little hound dog from The Royal Tenenbaums.) About ten years ago, my wife and I rescued him from a shelter in […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. Today is Father’s Day. Everyone is still asleep, except the orioles and squirrels hopping across the lawn on the other side of the street, and the cardinals carrying on their chorus somewhere in the distance. I poured a cup of coffee into a small, plain ivory mug. The mug, […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. Imagine waking up in the morning, turning your eyes to the light creeping in around the window shades, and seeing God. Imagine pouring your morning coffee, watching the tiny air bubbles swirl and loop and drift, and seeing God. Imagine staring up at the leaves on a windy day […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. I don’t have as many opportunities as I’d like to interact with non-believers. But I did have a brief engagement with someone recently that drew my attention to a spiritual truth. It’s a truth that we can’t ever let go of in our own lives, since it holds our […]
[[This post contains affiliate links.]] I almost missed him. I let the dog out in the early morning air. As I looked alongside the house, I saw steam rising from our side doorstep. Could we really be losing so much heat from that part of the house? No. A patch of orange twitched by a […]
[[Note: This post contains affiliate links.]] I sat down with Carl Trueman, Aimee Byrd, and Todd Pruitt on the Mortification of Spin podcast to discuss Finding God in the Ordinary. Searching for God in the world around you can lead to a heightened awareness of God’s presence. As John Calvin put it, there’s no place […]
[[This post contains affiliate links.]] Spring has whispered its way into mid-March. What’s long been down and defeated is beginning to rise in victory. Photosynthetic smiles sprout from the earth and call for tamping and tending. Color is coming back into the cheeks of the world. My wife rushes passed me in the kitchen. “I […]