Advent and Christmas Journey
On moving to our new house I have discovered an underground network of stinging nettles in my garden beds. During winter, soon after we arrived here the nettles disappeared and I couldn’t see them, but now as spring has begun to arrive they have pounced and begun to fill my garden with stinging weeds that choke out other plant growth. The issue isn’t the soil. It is what has been hiding beneath the surface of it all along...
Good Friday It wasn't supposed to be this way? “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.” “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had... Continue Reading →
There were two gardens. Two gardens in this long tread of time. And God walked in them both. So did frail humanity, humanity forged in the image of God forgetting themselves and forsaking God. This is the story of the first garden, but only part of the story of the second.
How do I look this child in the face and tell her everything is going to be okay, when the reality all around her says it's not? When her nine year old frame spins on a planet full of poverty and pain and she knows more than most what this means.
