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 […]