the cup: a poem for Good Friday

This is a Good Friday meditation that I penned several years ago. The style is in grateful appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ influence, but the content is that of indescribable awe of a Savior who would choose to drink the cup of wrath in our place.

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.

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.