I wish I could have God’s view of Montgomery Bell State Park this Saturday. I’ll have friends there, eyes on the ground, and they’ll report back to me: it was good. But even they won’t have the full view of what’s really going on – what’s happening in and through the...
As the calendar reminds us of those early days of grief, thoughts turn to the ways the road of grieving stretches longer than we might have first guessed. We who grieve – for loved ones, for dashed hopes, for the pain we see around us – we walk with a limp, like Jacob in one of...
A bit like my granny, who could tell you a storm was coming by the arthritic pain in her knees, I always know when the anniversary of a hard day has come, even when I’m strung out on busy, hands working too many tasks to name. Today, the arthritic pains of grief ache fresh....
Each year, we celebrate the memory of Bane Beasley with a birthday party that’s not your typical fruit punch-and-pinata fare. His family, friends, and people who never even met him all get together and sweat out their support for families who are laboring through the sudden loss of a child. We...
[photo credit here] i’ve seen resurrection with my own eyes. if you know my soul-friends, you’ve seen it, too. i don’t mean the body – don’t send your news vans and paparazzi; i mean something deeper. i have seen the dead rise and limp on, and i’ve seen them...
Each year, on this day, I want my soul friends. I want to be in their house, as in days past, munching on something Drason has cooked up, sharing a couch cushion with Sonya, watching old movies or laughing as our kids bang on tambourines and choreograph others sorts of mayhem. ...
Pictured above: Winners of the 2011 Banebow 5K Fun Run/Walk Each year, we celebrate the memory of Bane Beasley with a birthday party that’s not your typical fruit punch-and-pinata fare. His family, friends, and people who never even met him all get together and sweat out their support for...
two years into this story: the pain is still real. the loss is still felt. the Lord is still good. and this face? is still remembered. We grieve fresh with the Beasley family on this two-year milestone, and we renew our commitment to serve Banebow’s...
photo credit here One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. (v.4-5) Push the right buttons, and you’ll see me display my grandfather’s temper. Put me in a sticky...
photo credit here though the cassette tape borders on extinction, the mp3 playlist still doesn’t quite capture the nostalgia-borne beauty of the “mix tape.” i see myself, pimpled and pre-teen, hovering over my boom box in stonewashed denim, index fingers poised over both record and pause,...
photo credit here Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? Isaiah 43:19 May the new life all around mirror the miracle of new life within …
photo credit here gazing up at him, nailed there, out of the reach of her arms, the arms that had swaddled him on his very first day, she grieved an aching, wretched, human grief. i sit silent for her today, on this Good Friday that must have been anything but, for the mother of the one who...
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