My years have taught me to choose hope, to choose love, to look for the good, so this year, this time, I choose that more than ever.
A Piece of Goodness
April 3, 2025
Heretic With heavy, silent tears he watched as the crowds rejected his precious gift, avoidance disguised in the form of praise and worship, misunderstanding shame and self-deprecation as humility rather than denial. Peter and Paul also raised friends from the dead. The woman with the hemorrhage was saved by her faith not the energy that […]
March 31
Whose Heart Whose heart breaks for Judas,the first apostle to enter heaven?Who mourns with his widow and her children,and puts flowers on his grave?He was human, like us.He was loved and did love, like us.Whose heart breaks for Judas?With the heart of Christ, mine. Easter Sunday, March 31The Empty TombJohn 20:1-9 Whose Heart Whose heart […]
March 25
Monday, March 25Anointing at BethanyJohn 12:1-11 The Woman with the Alabaster Jar As a young girl, and ever since,ever since,she had a problem with menand they with her.Never enough –good enough, smart enough, pretty enough.Never seen as a person,much less an equal.Never heard,much less listened to.Never thanked,much less appreciated.Never welcomed to the table,although it was […]
March 18
Monday, March 18The Woman Caught in AdulteryJohn 8:1-11 Stones She stands in the center,afraid,crying,vulnerable,feeling alone.They hurled assaultswith the hope of inflicting painand shame,to press on the fresh woundwith a sense of righteousness,spitting madon the verge of escalating violence,looking for stones, unawarethat it was the evil one who set them out. Yet Jesus stood in the […]