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Ugly Grace

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things. – Colossians 1:19-20The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with ...

Hard Grace

Everything is eucharisteo.Because eucharisteo is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us to transfigure all things — take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform ...

A Lifestyle of Thanksgiving

When children sleep under the scraps stitched into quilts and the clock ticks too loudly through the dark hours and the spiral galaxies spin in space, I lie under the ...

Giving Thanks In Everything

I sit at the prayer bench before my bedroom window. Outside, our boys roll millions of flakes into a snow fort. I read the passage, one I remember from the ...

Grief and God... and Manna Grace

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on ...

Every Good and Perfect Gift

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. — James 1:17In the middle of ...