Full: Lent 2025

Here we are again. Another Lent. Another wilderness wandering. Another start to reflecting on the world via my very sporadic writings. It seems Lent has been the time I feel most compelled to write. Perhaps because of the introspective nature of the season. Maybe it’s just the experience of taking the United Methodist Photo-A-Day challenge […]

breath: Red Letter Challenge

Lent begins with the reminder, “From dust you came and to dust you shall return.” Having our mortality smeared across our foreheads, we are meant to pause and reflect upon the meaning of this fleeting life. But I am more than dust, more than this piles of flesh and bones. God’s breath is what brought […]

hurt: Red Letter Challenge

When I was a kid and I’d scrape a knee or an elbow, mom would sometimes break out the mercurochrome (since discontinued because it is toxic…ah, simpler times) and if there was a little bleeding, she’d slap a bandage on. With a kiss to “make it better” and a proverbial, if not actual, pat on […]