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THE BEAUTIFUL TENSION

A Community of Covering

May 14, 2019Categories Genesis

We can either expose the sins others to cover ourselves or share in the exposure of others trusting the Lord’s covering is sufficient for us both.

A Pretender’s Confession

May 3, 2019June 28, 2019Categories Lament

A sweet breeze sways the trees but it’s a dry and barren desert inside me. I’m infected by with a disease that despite my unease, I can’t appease. Flowers bloom, even the moon is new, but inside I’m black and blue— scars and wounds like tattoos I wish were untrue. Wash away with shampoo. I…

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Colors of Promise

April 30, 2019June 28, 2019Categories Genesis

Noah steps out of the ark after 150 days enduring the violent onslaught of the waters and waiting for the waters to retreat from the ground. When his feet hit the dry land, the narrative is dense with anticipation of Lamech’s hope—that relief from sin and all its tragic consequences has indeed come, that the…

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Hope, Anchored and Reaching

April 22, 2019June 28, 2019Categories Genesis

We are really bad at waiting. We see our disdain for and discomfort in waiting really clearly in our kids. As adults, we simply mask our impatience in more creative, socially-acceptable ways. Recently, I have made the mistake of telling Whittaker that we are going to an Atlanta United match for our annual Boys Weekend.…

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Mirror of the Water

April 19, 2019April 21, 2019Categories Genesis

In our generation, there is no more enduring and scarring mental monument to the utter and absolute destruction of flooding than Hurricane Katrina. Katrina made landfall somewhere east of New Orleans in August of 2005, and despite its category 3 rating, its rains overpowered the city’s levees and left New Orleans under water. Because most…

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Reflections from the Fire

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019Categories Lament1 Comment on Reflections from the Fire

To say that you have gained something from my suffering, to claim some benefit has come to you at my expense—that your perspective has changed or that you have a renewed appreciation for your lot in life—is to cheapen my suffering. It is to commodify it for your consumption at my cost. To glean gain…

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