Autumn. The others don’t even compete. It’s a cool brisk morning… The heat of the sun streaming through the foggy white windows is at last rightly appreciated as a commodity; its warm color contrasts the faded vibrances below. There’s a few quiet minutes before the alarm rings, miles away in its dusty parking spot, and today that’s more than enough

I was thinking recently, this world is a lot newer to me than I am to it. There’s nothing really new for me to say, or feel, or hope for. What really blows my mind, is that someone miles away, that I may never have even met, is, has, or will probably go through something that I already have, and

“I’d like to live with a newt,” you might quietly shout to yourself as I did in 7th grade. I got one. His name is Newty. I also named our golden retriever “Goldie.” I guess I was a late bloomer in the creativity department. Anyway, I put him in the same category as lizards and goldfish as far as life

A few months ago, I was part of a small group that decided to go skeet shooting. As a result, I now know what skeet shooting is. Mind you, this was in the greater Atlanta area and we are a bunch of city boys. It’s likely that the only guns we ever shot were shot sideways, (at paper targets of

God’s love is not something I can learn in an instant (or even a lifetime). Sometimes I treat the cross as if it’s God’s only expression of love, but, in reality, it’s where it only begins! God’s love for us is not something we learn in a moment as if it were an interesting fact, it’s an infinite well in

Have you ever been told a true story, then seen a picture or interview with the real life participants only to be shocked by the fact that the characters you see in front of you do not look or talk anything like those who once lived and breathed in your imagination? Adjectives can only be so vivid. I guess that’s

“You love justice and hate evil. Therefore, O God, your God has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.” This verse is taken from Hebrews 1, where the Son of God’s status is being made known. That last part of the verse evokes an interesting suspicion. Was Jesus the most joyous person