"That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works" (Psalm 26.7, KJV)
I’m learning to pay attention to thing that crop up during the week. This week it was the term liminal space—a time between one thing and the next. Jesus, following his Baptism, goes into the Judean wilderness for forty days… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Liminal Space
Stars, as far as we know, all form the same way. In the gassy expanse of a nebula—itself a remnant of a dead star—atoms of hydrogen fall into each other’s gravity and begin to orbit one another. Their shared mass… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Dust
I’m guilty of supporting the side-show. While I have refused to follow the President on Twitter, I still click on the headlines. I still want to know what was said. I want to be appalled, to be exasperated by his… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Intercession
There’s a video that’s been making the rounds on the internet this week of Astronaut Christina Koch’s homecoming, her true homecoming. In it, after nearly a year in space, she and LBD, her dog, see each other for the first… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Stones of Home
Can prayer change the world? change people? What happens if your prayer and someone else’s prayer run contrary to one another? Do they cancel out, collide like positive and negative particles as they pass through the air? Prayer was in… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Prayer
In a devotion this morning, I read about anger. The piece focused on the importance of feeling the emotion of anger, of not burying or avoiding it. And while I know the place the writer was coming from, it didn’t… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Sorrow
You know the story. Or, at least, you’ve heard it once or twice. In the hours before humanity gets its hands on him, Jesus sits down to eat with his closest friends. They recline on the floor, devour food and… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Mealtime
This past week, we celebrated the birthday of two of our cats. Shasta and his brother Corin turned sixteen this past Friday. And other than the first six weeks of their life, they’ve lived with us all those years. Birthdays… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Corin
This’ll come up at some point; so, I’ll put it out there now. I struggle with depression and anxiety. I’m fortunate that I have medication that helps me, and that I’m in a place, mentally, that’s allowing me to use… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Imposter
Five days into the year, I feel like I may have taken on an even more difficult task. It’s one thing to talk hope and redemption in the waning days of a holiday season, but the cold light of January… Read moreThe Redemption Project – Twelfth Night