SPOKEN SILENCE

A common phrase among Christians is that we are "Easter people" or a "resurrection people." We are a people who live into the hope of the...

Some of you know my background, others of you don’t. I grew up in a house saturated with Science and Math. My Papaw did his undergrad in...

The rising of the sun has always meant something special to me. There's something entrancing about watching the light grow stronger on...

This darker path into the heart of pain Was also hers whose love enfolded him In flesh and wove him in her womb. Again The sword is...

"Let me hear of your loving-kindness in the morning, for I put my trust in you; show me the road that I must walk, for I lift up my soul...

Lamentations 2:1-4; 10-13 How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor...

I'm frustrated. My last post was entitled "Bliss" - and I still can't fully explain how happy I've been here at OSH. Bliss is only a...

This morning when I came into chapel and sat down, I couldn't help the smile that tugged at the corners of my mouth. I cleared my throat...

"Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, and why are you so disquieted within me?" Psalm 42:5a Today is quiet. Just like every other...

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the...

Part of me really doesn't want to write this post. Part of me, the part that hates confrontation, thinks that it would be a post better...

"perhaps i don't deserve nice things cause i'm paying for sins i don't remember" ~rupi kaur As he [Jesus] walked along, he saw a man...

I sit in the wooden pew. The green cushion gives ever so slightly under me as I take my spot. I sit there every week without fail. I keep...

One of my favorite indulgences is putting on music while I shower and get ready in the mornings. On normal days, I'm getting ready for...

Today is a difficult day. Holy Saturday. A day of emptiness. A day of darkness. A day of silence. I imagine that Saturday had to feel...

I'm hurting these days. My routine is shot to pieces, I've been laid off, and I'm isolated from my friends. I'm not the only one feeling...

These are dark days. People are sick, and people are dying. People are anxious, and people are depressed. People are losing their jobs,...

“That time of year thou mayest in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,...

"It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the...

I ache with longing. I typed that sentence out feeling overly dramatic. But the fact is that I do ache. I feel it in my chest. Like a...