Zechariah
Zechariah February 2025 Luke 1:5-25 At their doorway, Zechariah and Elisheva stood side by side, her hand in his, taking in the view of the city. The words of the psalmist, almost by their own accord, fell from Zechariah’s lips. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem …...
River of Life
River of Life January 2025 Revelation 22:1; Ezekiel 11:19 “Victor Varon died.” “Oh? What a sad, tragic man. Does Delphine know?” “There’s no indication here. I suppose she knows. I doubt many will miss him. Poor Victor, he was difficult to like.” Amari...
Love One
Love One December 2024 1 John 3:1 ● Deuteronomy 5:7-10 A screeching ak-ak-ak sounded from the rocks. I looked up. Seagull, lots of wingflaps. Must have said something the other ones didn’t like. “Depression can get like that,” I said. “It can just grab you by the...
Cheeseburger Psalm
Cheeseburger Psalm October 2024Ephesians 3:16-19 We were having a late lunch at Phyllis’s coffee shop, a cheery place done up with yellow and white chintz tablecloths and framed covers from the Saturday Evening Post, the ones by Norman Rockwell of folks in diners and...
Oak and Oat
Oat and Oak October 2024 Matthew 21:16 Y’know what I think, Grampa?” Bailey squiggled her 10-year-old self onto the recliner, snuggled up next to her grandfather. She was warm and fragrant from playing. Her grandfather said, “Bailey, you smell like the outdoors.” The...
Convocation of Flies
Convocation of Flies Isaiah 14:12-27 1 Peter 5:8 James 4:7 Ephesians 4:27 September 2024 Shielded within a sphere of light, tall, broad of shoulder, sun-bright in white robes, Mikha’el and Gavri’el watched the convocation below. A foul taste came to Mikha’el’s...
Sprinting In LaPaz
Sprinting in La Paz August 2024 Matthew 13.22 Ecclesiastes 9.11 Today was no different. It’s the crunch of the sand or maybe breeze in the palm trees, waves lapping on the shore, whatever. Every time I step off the blacktop onto the sand, the memories click,...
The Third Day
July 2024 Matthew 28:1-4 Dust filtered into the darkened tomb, silently erasing the signs of mourning. The cold body lay on the bier, lovingly draped in a linen burial shroud. Outside, Roman legionnaires, eyes juddering in the dawnlight, await this, the third day....
Barbershop Duet
Barbershop DuetJune 20241 Peter 3:15 Squinting against the rain, his thoughts anywhere but where he was going, Roger Berlingson caught the red and white candycane out of the corner of his eye just in time to avoid whacking it with his head. Good thing it was there. If...
T. Tom
Matthew 5.38-39 Romans 1:17-19 Six o’clock Saturday morning, T. Tom awoke just as he did every Saturday morning. He was ten years of age and everyone called him T. Tom, his dad, his grandparents, aunts and uncles, even his friends. Everyone except mother, Maggie...