Sacrfice: 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 and turning […]

give: Red Letter Challenge

We have this piece resting on our mantle. I read somewhere that the original was created by a Hallmark writer, but it has been duplicated a number of times. We found this in the West Bottoms in some shop during First Fridays here in Kansas City. Since I see it most days, I read through […]

cross: Red Letter Challenge

Do you know the hymn The Old Rugged Cross? Here are just a couple of lines. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,the emblem of suffering and shame…O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,has a wondrous attraction for me… I’ll admit, though I have sung it countless times, I’ve […]