Failing Love

Failing Love

I can’t swim the ocean that’s growing between us The shores are too far apart Grover Levy, “When We Fail Love”   These words may be simple, but they are some of the saddest ever penned in contemporary Christian music. They bear witness to an intractable...
Waves of Unforgiveness

Waves of Unforgiveness

My father passed away twelve years ago this month. My relationship with him—both living and in the time since his death—has proved a most rigorous lesson in forgiveness.   Just as grief comes in waves, unforgiveness knocks us down unexpectedly and repeatedly....
Already. Not Yet.

Already. Not Yet.

“It seems to me people tend to forget we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness, but because God their Father loves them. I have preached on that a hundred times.” – Reverend John Ames, Gilead There’s a song I recall from...
Travels with Karl: Part I – Aloha

Travels with Karl: Part I – Aloha

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