Echoes from Zion

3.23.24 Last September, I stood in a crowd of worshippers on the fourth anniversary of our Emma Grace’s homegoing. I had not know what it...

Edna White was not one for inactivity. When reflecting over the almost 45 years I had the honor of calling her Grandmother, I can barely...

Her story has been told for two-thousand years, just as Jesus said it would be. The one who boldly committed a social faux pas by...

Sometimes I write because I feel like something needs to be shared – a word, a thought, a theological position – and I use my blog as a...

"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...

Her chest trembled and ached from holding in her desperation, the keening sobs quaking just below the surface, ready to explode if pushed...

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...

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...