There is an old science fiction movie called Forbidden Planet. It tells the story of an advanced civilization whose brilliance became its undoing. They possessed astonishing knowledge, remarkable technology, and power beyond imagination. Yet none of those things could save them. Their greatest enemy did not arrive in a...
Perhaps the greatest discoveries of our lives are not the things we find, but the things we finally recognize. There is a curious pattern woven through everyday life. We search for our glasses only to discover they have been resting on top of our heads all along. We hear...
There are days when I feel full from living the truth of my faith. And there are days when I don’t feel like I’m living from it at all. Not because I stopped believing or turned away. But because life, as it meets me in the moment, still feels...
A Good Friday Reflection There is a moment in the final hours before the cross that I find myself returning to more often now than I used to. Jesus is sitting with His disciples, sharing a meal, and in the middle of that gathering, He says something that shifts...
Not long ago, I found myself thinking about the difference between want and will. At first, it seemed simple—something we make choices from every day—but the more I sat with it, the more I realized there is a deeper conversation that should be happening inside each of us before...
I’ve turned a lot of pages in my life—some with hope, some with dread, and some with a cup of coffee going cold beside me while I tried to decide if I was ready to read what came next. They weren’t the neat, chapter-to-chapter kind of pages you imagine...
There are times when my questions won’t stay quiet. They won’t line up neatly and wait their turn to be answered. They bombard. They pull at threads and ask things like: What is time, really? And what will become of us when healing is finally finished? Most of us...
Christmas is around the corner, and I am sure, like all of you, when I sit back and look at the houses lit in the neighborhood and the decorations that have transformed my home, I find myself reflecting on another year. Christmas Past roams the halls of my mind,...
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you…’”— Exodus 16:4 ESV I sat this morning with a cup of chai and a quiet mind, watching the world unravel on a screen. Faces of the hungry. Eyes of the displaced. A child clutching...
We’ve all considered this lie at some point—that love is limited. It’s like a pie, divided thinner and thinner with every new person who steps into the circle. We fear there won’t be enough left for us, or that someone else’s presence might push us aside. But Father shows...