To slow down,to halt,to cease,to Sabbath. I talk of you as a dream,only to encounter your nightmare.In you I find all I have been running from.The frantic move of the herd, still unaware of our predator. But when we cease,we…

The hill where Custer died "When you get to the Visitor's Center, look for the blue dress--it belonged to Judy's grandma," she told me. “Judy” is her friend. I’d just met both at the mission school—middle-aged, Northern Cheyenne women. "Both…

“The Bible says that ‘for everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven...a time to heal, ...and a time to build up.’ That time is now. In the midst of a global pandemic, economic hardship…

It’s hard to know what words are left to say about recent events—it’s difficult to begin writing, not knowing what might happen mere hours from now. I’m sure there are many good and necessary words, but I am less confident about what…

II Samuel 11: In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.…

The sweet taste of sunlight.Cold creek on the shins.Colored-tailed soaring in the heavens.Who knew these were the medicine my soul needed,breath into my ever tightening chest.See, I have been given new eyes with which to know an old Creation.Has it…

January’s days are trickling past in a slow but steady stream. Advent, Christmas, and even the day of Epiphany are now over. Nonetheless, I find myself fixating on the Christ candle. Sure, I see it still lit in the wreath…