love

I tell stories about you, my friend. “I once had a friend who ____”, or “a friend once said___”, or “once a friend and I _____”. Every time I say…

Let love be the gravity that pulls the chaos into order. Let love be the light giving sight to the entire system. Let love be the rootedness that binds our lives together.…

What is art but the unseen prophetic truths of the soul incarnated in some tangible way? What is art if it doesn’t stir the heart to accountability and action and…

You are born with a wound of darkness inside. It isn’t everything. It doesn’t blot out the light. But it will fester as life throws its hate at you, and…

I was a carefree, wonder-filled child growing up, wild and imaginative and naive. Everything was simple and God was amazingly real and I just knew He loved me. Then I…

They said I shouldn’t be wild-hearted
Because it meant I was uncontrollable.
They said I shouldn’t be wild-hearted
Because it scared them,
And they didn’t understand why–

it is the hardest thing to watch someone you love in destruction mode denying their inner anguish pasting band-aids on bleeding gashes that spread and spread their darkness until they’re…

Fight for Your Heart When the world crushes you with dream-killing deceit, ripping back the curtains of reality to show you the trickster lurking in shadows promising happiness and home…

To love is to listen well. It’s a phrase I’ve been thinking on for several months. It’s a seed that has slowly grown in the soil of my mind into…

It’s the week of Valentine’s Day. Barf. (Okay, not really. But I’ve never been a fan of how people obsess over this overly-commercialized holiday.) For the past few years around…