Day: December 24, 2021

For anyone who is not familiar with the geography of Philadelphia, that is a thirty mile run that crosses the city several times. Y’know… your average everyday fifty-k training run.

And here we didn’t need to be worried after all! We could have trusted this giant dog’s tenderness. And all I’m saying is can you imagine if we could trust our own compassion… 

In the hour of the wedding and the season of the honeymoon, those are easy promises to keep. Love is easy when everyone is healthy and there’s plenty to share and people are surrounded by joy. But…

He could have left Nathanael and gone his own way. But, instead, he does the hard thing: Philip tells him, with all of the confidence that fifteen seconds of courage can give, “Come and see.”

In all of your wondrous brokenness, you are loved and worthy of love; and God loves you exactly the way that you are. And God loves you too much to leave you that way.

I don’t remember the last time I told a stranger that Micropachycephalosaurus has the longest name of any dinosaur.

Prophesy. Tell them the word of the Lord. Tell them that the Lord says to get up; to stand up; to grow muscle and sinew, organs and flesh; to breathe breath.

Advent is about more than one thing. It is a season that exists in the past, and in the present, and in the future. It is a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey… stuff.

Sometimes, a song, or a prophecy, or a story, can mean more than one thing. And what it means depends on where you stand.