He was watering rocks with a hose, when I pulled into the driveway of a neighborhood I didn’t know. Car piled with kids, an address found from Google Maps. Two lamps I was drawn to, that I couldn’t let go of. I have been stuck in the Grand Canyon lately, hoping my way to higher ground. […]

They are rising all around me, like cardboard-box-replicas. One after another, after another. My daughter sits next to me, months after wondering what they were building around this growing town, off the exit on I5. My mind can’t get over how they are all the same. Like fortressed of straight walls, peering up against one another, […]

Sponsored faces seek to hook us with their captions. One-liners and forced emotion capture us into the rat-race, draw us into the barren places, mindlessly luring us into stories, we will never have a role in. The latest crisis taunts us with the lie, “You have to watch. You need to listen”, turning curiosity into doom-scrolling. […]

They were outside painting. Spraying dark, the white steeple that had pointed to the sky, often cumulus clouds floating above it… Bright rays of unfamiliar sun, shooting through that steeple…In this region, known very well for its cynicism and darkness. It was the second church in a week I had seen, painted dark over its sparkling, […]

As a child, my heart always wandered to the more. In class, I struggled fixing my gaze on the hired teacher in front of the classroom. I often peered out the window’s glass, daydreaming about places, people and what tomorrow might bring. Asking… What was life like, outside these four walls I was trapped in? Have […]

You Matter. As small as you may feel in this world, as invisible or unseen, everything you say or do, matters. You are not a mistake. An accident. You have not been forgotten. God planned and ordained your purpose and position, even before you were born. (Ephesians 1:11) And although it may feel like we are […]