A year ago it was good Friday, and I wrote a small poem in the dimly lit sanctuary of the Anchor Fellowship in downtown Nashville. I was staring at a picture (below) representing the 13th station of the cross, where Jesus’ body is taken down from the cross. The hands holding the soil of barely-begun-new-life […]
john 15: abide (restful surrender)
This whole chapter is so full of rich promises stemming from challenges Jesus is giving to his disciples. It’s not “don’t do this or that”, or “do this because I said so”–it’s “Do this, know this, react in this way, because it is the way of the father, it is what I myself have followed […]