I’m Gonna Let It Shine

This morning I was reading in Luke 11, and among many other marvelous truths packed into that chapter, God was showing me one powerful truth through two great analogies.

What Is This Blog Even About?

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog since its auspicious inception about a week ago, you have probably been wondering what in the world this blog is even about.

Satisfaction in the Mundane

Everyone wants to live a good story. And lately I was thinking about that while chopping a heap of vegetables.

A Meditation on Lift-the-Flap Books and Jesus

I don’t know what started me thinking about this topic today, but for some reason, lift-the-flap books reminded me of Jesus. Now, I’m not usually one to come up with far-fetched analogies, stretching my comparisons as thin as the gum on the world’s largest bubble. (Just kidding. I did that one on purpose.) But as I thought about these books in relation to Jesus, it rang true in my heart that this is one way I’ve encountered and enjoyed Jesus.

What Does Your Brain Look Like?

Gears and ivy. That’s what my brain looks like. If you could peek into my head (which I strongly advise against), I think you’d see cogs and gears—antique and tarnished but still madly churning—with tendrils of ivy growing on, around, and within the machine….

Blog Post the First: Being a Declaration of Intention and Desire

Edmund Spenser was preparing to write an epic. Back in the day, it was customary for someone that audacious to declare his intentions in advance by writing something a bit more manageable first. For Spenser, this was a series of 12 pastoral poems called…