Lent, the forty days observed before Easter, commemorate those that preceded the advent of Christ’s ministry–when Jesus “was sent into the wilderness” (Mark 1:12) and tempted by Satan. With the season of “bright sadness” upon us, a term used by the Eastern...
Three years of loss, heartache, and impossible circumstances dropped me in the middle of a wasteland experience. The questions we ask when we’re distraught, grieving and disillusioned scrawled across tear-stained journal pages and erupted from the depths of my...
The sleek feel of wood pressed against my knees as unintelligible words spilled haphazard and desperate from a shattered heart. Miniature puddles dotted the floor’s surface–a testimony of tears pock-marking shiny laminate. I’d been wandering in the...
