“Justice will bubble up,hope will raise its head,love will rise to the surface.Hate and fear will try todrown them out,but…

“Expressing our joys, telling our truths, asking the questions we need to ask, repenting and making amends, being our honest…

“Dear God, we all know the perfect sting of a critic, calling us out when we go our own way.…

“Isaiah sings of God, of God doing a new thing. Isaiah helps us to remember, to embrace, to find the…

“Creator God, from time to time beauty can wake us up. It pulls us out of the gray of our…

“I am dumbfoundedby the sheer persistenceof a winter rosethat bloomson the coldest of days—when the rest of the worldhas turned…

“In resistance to death, as an act of extravagant love, Mary anoints Jesus with a fragrance that fills the whole…

“Holy God, Mary poured perfume on your feet and it was etched into the pages of time, for her simple…

“We are free to bring our whole selves as a living testimony to who God has made and makes us…

“God, sometimes I am the prodigal son—knee-deep in my own mistakes and far from home. When I get to those…