Today, I sat on my balcony, listening. Speak, even if your voice is trembling please, you’ve been quiet for so long believe, it’ll be worth the risk you’re taking. “Do you really have dreams this big for me?” my tears whisper as they spill out of my eyes, like little drops of dew rolling over my […]
tears & the faithfulness of God.
It’s interesting to me that God gave our eyes room to fill with tears. They so quickly pool around our retinas, and things get blurry. Then they either fall out and fill again or they dissipate as quietly as they came. It’s a beautiful exchange, to fill and to empty, fill and empty, again and […]
This is who you are.
Friday night, as I fell asleep, I was wandering through the laundry list of prayers that come up out of my physical fatigue and my weary mind, soul, and spirit. This week has been long. Friday took forever to arrive. There have been good moments, but also hard moments. There have been sweet times of fellowship […]
Jehovah Nissi: the Lord my Banner
Twenty-fifteen began with a word pregnant with unmapped purpose. It exploded off the pages of the Word for me. It folded itself into the fringes of my poetry. It announced itself in people’s prayers over me. It came up again and again, sometimes so loudly that it blew me over and sometimes so softly that I […]
on persecution & stories
Here, I sit on a warm porch with a stilling breeze. I stare at the Himalayan foothills and hear birds and dogs and voices and infrastructure. I type these words because I need to, not because I want to. I don’t want to tell their stories; I want you to hear them as I heard […]
On being back.
Return. So much is packed into that word for me. I read through the book of Ruth the last couple of days before boarding a plane back to South Asia. And I saw that word over and over again. Right alongside the word “redemption.” Redemption always involves a return. A forsaking of something else and […]