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My Lover Speaks
Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come . . . let me see you, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet and you are lovely. //...
Making Straight the Path
“Thus were the paths of those on earth made straight.” Wisdom 9:18b. Wisdom knows to wait gracefully on the Lord. I, on the other hand, not so much. When my...
We Cannot Assume Malice
“Woe to you . . . you hypocrites.” // Matthew 23:23 Some hypocrisy is born of sheer malice—and some from ignorance and stupidity. On the day that Roe v. Wade...
Lean into His Allure
I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. // Hosea 2:16 The first time I ever went on retreat, I was in the sixth grade. I...
Don’t Be a Clucking Hen
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. // Galatians 5:13 We’d just had the extraordinary privilege to attend a three-day congress at the Vatican in honor of the twentieth anniversary...
Resting Under His Fire
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire . . . to rest on each one of them. // Acts 2:3 Some months before my book Jesus Approaches was...
Receive the Father
“Whoever receives me, receives the one who sent me.” // John 13:20 My meditation went like this: I’m with Jesus, and He wants to take me to the Father. I’m...
Arriving at Shore
They saw Jesus walking on the sea. // John 6:19 I woke up this morning afraid. The world is at war in way it has not been in my lifetime,...
Who Rules You?
“Put in my mouth persuasive words in the presence of the lion.” // Esther C 24 in the NAB It was my first really big job. High pressure, high demands....
They Ridiculed Him
“Then he put them all out.” // Mark 5:40 When I first began working with Ellie she described herself as “stuck.” It didn’t take long before she came to realize...
Is Your Servant Listening?
"I have waited, waited for the Lord." // Psalm 40:2 I’d been in my university position for fourteen years. I loved my job, my colleagues were like family to me,...
When Jesus Doesn't Heal
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” // Psalm 147:3 I’d given a talk on the tricky topic of when healing doesn’t happen. A woman who listened writes...
