The “Lord Give Me Patience” Prayer

I want to be lots of things. Like, I want to be creative. I’m not just talking “artsy craftsy.” I mean legit creative, like the person who thought of repurposing a hanging shoe organizer as a vertical herb garden. I know there is such a person because I saw this picture of their geniusness posted [...]

Meditating on the meaning of this weekend and the history of the garden…

  It was a garden. Where you broke through emptiness, brought forth life, birthed a son.  Spoken word divided meaning from nothingness. Shared breath emptied air into lung, grace into heart,    eternity into spirit. It was a garden where you set rhythm to life.   And then we wandered.  Broke shalom. Doubted back towards [...]

When Life isn’t Disneyland

I have watched cranes take flight over lapping water and monkeys play on the sandy beaches of Lake Victoria. I have warmed by turquoise waters under the Caribbean sun, have watched seal and dolphin swim south along the California coast of  Zuma. I have hiked mountains among the moss-covered boulders and towering firs of Canada’s [...]

Seasons of NINE YEARS…

Many of you have heard that we were in San Antonio this weekend for their independent Christian film festival and that we were thrilled for Seasons of Gray to win the Audience Choice Award for best film at the festival. We were so encouraged by the kind words and overwhelming supportive responses of so many. [...]

Two years at Willow…

I was thinking about it last week when he trotted into my house… the little boy who has trotted into my house hundreds of times. He came in one afternoon last week and greeted me in his little man-ish way, and I gave him a smile and called out his name. And I was happy [...]

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  • meditating on…

    John 19: 41-42
    At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

  • listening to…

    Hosanna
    with Christy Nockels on Passion's God of This City album