When Change Arrives

Leaves are beginning to decorate the driveway, their yellow outlines like pieces of sun fallen to earth. A signal, a symbol? of a passing season. I’m thinking about changes a lot these days – about the way we embrace them or brace against them. I’m a...

The Darkness Is Heavy

I told a dear friend the other day that I wasn’t really one of those people who look for signs of the Apocalypse, but the amount of pain and suffering in the world these days makes me think I might need to call up another friend who has the timeline down and ask...

Peace in the Storm

During my high school summers, I wrote one friend a letter every day.  I had a list of people who I wouldn’t see because they lived just far enough away or because they attended boarding school in our town and were home for the summer. Every night after dinner,...

Love, My Saving Grace

I’m joining the synchroblog for the release of A Christian Survival Guide: A Lifeline to Faith and Growth by answering the prompt: ‘What saved my faith?’” We had bought a house and moved across the country. I was two weeks away from starting my new job as a...

Listen and SEE! For #Ferguson

I have been reading, looking, crying, praying all week. I have seen the stories of Mike Brown gunned down and his body left in the street.  I have read about John Crawford shot for holding a toy gun.  A photo of Howard University students in an auditorium with their...