There have been many small deaths in my life. Moving away from our home in the country. Cutting my long hair. The final performance of

One day I casually asked her how she managed to get a bag of bagels delivered so consistently.

I told God quite vehemently that I was finished with him. If this was his idea of caring for his children, he was doing a

Job’s response is so fitting. “You have spoken of things too wonderful for me. I put my hand over my mouth.”

A good photograph, as Journey’s grandmother puts it, “Stops a little piece of time, good or bad, and saves it.”

One summer years ago, I shocked my son by saying, as I began sorting through stuff that I thought we needed to have a garage

The tomatoes were eaten by some kind of worm or bug, and the corn leaned over like a half-hearted question mark.

Duke Divinity School Professor Richard Lischer once wrote: “Vocation puts an end to you in order to disclose your true end.”  These words give me