Tonight's drive home from work was not particularly special. I stopped by the day care to pick up my daughter, ran by Target to get one or two necessities, talked to a friend I had not seen in a while, and was back on the road toward home in no time. As I drove, I …
Category: Connection
What Happens When You Are Not Fully Human
A self-righteous, religious leader once asked Jesus a question. "Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law (Matthew 22.36)?" And although Jesus knew that in his questioning, this man was up to no good, he responded "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind...and …
Reclaiming Very Goodness
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. God saw that the light was …
Dark Night
The dark night of the soul is a daunting place in life, a place that I would not wish on my worst enemy. It represents a season of obscurity, incomparable to anything else. It is a season of wandering through desert places and navigating through the valley of the shadow of many deaths, producing lack …
An Invitation to All
When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. And He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And when …
Ebony Johanna 