Echoes from Zion

It seems like everyday I wake up to find our world deeper in the rabbit hole. While watching the Olympics last week, I heard a...

The path before me was a bit muddy, but I didn’t mind – I was grateful to be walking this trail deep in the Ozark woods of Arkansas. The...

"Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service [of worship]." - Romans 12:1 Over the...

Kids growing up today will never understand the utter excitement that flooded a young child's heart when the Sears Catalog Christmas...

Nothing could have prepared me for what I encountered as I slowly opened the door. The sounds of screaming and chaotic wailing...

Over the last 4 years, the American people have been inundated with endless news cycles of election fraud. From before President Trump...

"I survived." I took a deep breath and laid my head back on to my pillow. It was the first words that escaped my mouth this morning as I...

I awoke with a start, heart pounding, mind whirling. It was the second time in the last month that I had dreamed about losing her. "At...

“Today would have been her birthday.” The thought was the first one on my mind as I awoke that March morning. I lay there with my sleepy...

"So, how are you doing?" It was a simple enough question. One I received quite often, in fact. But in that moment, it was anything but...

Gold dust sparkling on lifted hands. Delicate white feathers filling the air. Fragrant oil dripping down the guitar fret. It's just...

The memory had come out of nowhere, if you can even call it a memory. It was more like a "knowing"...a feeling, a sense from a previous...

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and Word was God...and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." I don't know...

So, here's a raw, honest moment: when you miscarry a child shortly before Christmas, the nativity story becomes quite painful and even...

The bright light of a noon day sun can make most any landscape feel alive with hope. Colors are vivid. Shadows have fled. The valleys and...

The afternoon summer was just beginning to surrender its unbearably muggy heat to twilight’s cooler breezes as I sat on my grandparent’s...

I am not okay. The excitement of learning I was unexpectedly pregnant at 40 for the first time after believing that it probably would...

I lay face down on the floor in the great room, fists clinched, deep sobs racking my body. I was inconsolable. The mournful cries that...

I looked out on a sea of crimson mortarboards perched atop the heads of hundreds of exuberant teenagers. The sound of, "Pomp and...

The charcoal clouds still hang heavy in the skies outside my window. We just experienced what we in the south call a Gully-washer: an...