Yes

A cup to drink. A baptism to be baptized with. There is every reason to say no. A reason to yes can be hard to find. Will we share in Christ’s suffering for the world? Will we enter into the suffering of others? Glory. That is what our Lord calls his Cross, his throne. Glory. […]

Walk with God

“Come on, camel! Push on through! Come on, camel I’m pulling for you! Come on, camel, give it your all. Come on camel, we’re counting on you!” The chant goes on and on like it does every year. It is the one thousand nine hundred and ninetieth annual Camel and Needle Convention. Every year they […]

Things Fall Apart

Eventually everything falls apart. Like building a sandcastle at high tide. Even the stars, they wear out and die. Marriages die. Despite everything or often because of everything marriages die, and it makes a mess. Sometimes choices run out, the only choices left are all bad, and the least bad choice is divorce. There are […]

Have Salt

God is sticky. Like climbing a pine tree and getting covered with pine sap that gets you all sticky so that you get stuck on everything else. Or like roasting marsh mellows to make s-mores and getting that sticky melted sugar all over everything and getting stuck to everything. Or like spilling honey, or molasses-the […]