Jesus Returned: Poetic Thoughts on Luke 4:14–21

Jesus Returned: Poetic Thoughts on Luke 4:14–21

Jesus returned, walking dusty roadsback home, if He had a home.back to familiar faces,back to the places where stories started with laughter heard and lessons learned,where the synagogue’s wallsheld prayers heard during His childhood, His...
Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness

Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness

Our dependable source of accurate information, AI, has informed me that the average person hears between 20,000 to 30,000 words each day. And, that the average person says around 15,000 to 16,000 words each day. I’m not sure how many I have heard or stated...
Difficult Decembers

Difficult Decembers

Months bring their moods. They arrive in a hurry and depart even faster. But they bring tradition, memories, stories, experiences.  December always does.  In my younger years, the twelfth month brought her weather and her holidays. Christmas easily became my...
Difficult Decembers

December Drove This Way Again

Every year she arrives. Driving in a hurry, rushing at a speed faster than the previous year’s pace, she is here.  After December drives this way, she doesn’t slow down. The hurry continues.  I’m looking now at my schedule. The plans, the events, the...
Chapter Three: “The Wounded Healer”

Chapter Three: “The Wounded Healer”

Chapter three in Things We’ve Handed Down is, like each chapter in the book, a letter. And it is, like each chapter, based on a book which impacted my life. And this chapter, like chapter two, is about wounds. We know about wounds. We have all experienced wounds. We...