I wish I could better describe it. Everything that was white--that is, almost everything, from the snow-covered ground to the snow-smother...

Thanks to my Oregon-siblings gifting me with a bread-making book for Christmas, I have been baking bread like a crazy person.  I actually do...

"To learn to pray" sounds contradictory to us. Either the heart is so overflowing that it begins to pray by itself, we say, or it ...

I found this painting, Monk by the Sea (Caspar David Friedrich, 1809), this week: It's now my computer's wallpaper. If any of y...

One year ago today, I arrived in Baltimore . No fixed plans.  No set timeframe.  Open to whatever God wanted.  Ready for anything. No...

Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray, But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks Wants war, wants wounds; weary his times, hi...

Well, it appears that--once again--I am not headed towards the expected Destination A.  I'll know more certainly about the job this comi...

I recently found this email which I wrote to a friend back in 2007, during a difficult and beautiful time while I was at university and God ...