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 […]

witness: Red Letter Challenge

It’s always amazed me how two people can look at the same thing or experience the same event and both describe it differently. It’s the story of people blindfolded telling someone about an elephant by describing the part they can touch. “An elephant is like a fan,” says the one touch the ear. “An elephant […]

speak: Red Letter Challenge

I was an adult before I learned the lyric in Alabama’s Song of the South is not “sweet potato pie and a shirt in my mouth,” but “sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.” (secretly I have kept whispering it my way when I hear the song.) That’s how it is sometimes. We hear […]