by Barry Creamer | Nov 24, 2021 | Devotionals
They sit in perfectly disarrayed order unused for the moment: bowls with or without legs or pedestal; jars and cups with and without handle; pots, vases, dishes, pitchers. Each is the product of a loved daughter’s hand—testimony to the creativity and artisanship she...
by Barry Creamer | Nov 17, 2021 | Devotionals
Barry and his sister, Michelle, at ages 5 and 8 respectively (6 years before the story below). I am 10 or 11 years old, the only one at home when I hear my teenage sister come through the front door. I am immediately inspired to hide in the clothes hamper. She...
by Daisy Reynolds | Nov 17, 2021
Barry talks about how it is possible that advocates on opposite sides of issues like SOGI, race, economics, and abortion have enough common ground that they could build bridges to peace, rather than burn them down. Books: Science and Religion, Ian Barber...
by Daisy Reynolds | Nov 10, 2021
There are times we fight tooth and nail to fix a problem, when in fact, we are only making a dent in the symptom. Barry offers a few examples of this complexity and ways to think more deeply about it. Scriptures: 1 Kings 22 Book: Plato’s Republic, Book...
by Barry Creamer | Nov 10, 2021 | Devotionals
A teenager, I notice our midwinter pecan tree’s bare-branched ostensions to the sky. For the first time, I see that its limbs and fingers look like an inverted root structure—as if the whole were extracted then replanted upside-down by a mischievous Olympian (perhaps...
by Daisy Reynolds | Nov 3, 2021
Barry walks us through Psalm 18, dodging earthquakes, volcanoes, thunderstorms to watch God deliver us and bring us into a broad, safe place—a place of humility and gratitude. Scriptures: Psalm 18 2 Samuel 22:1ff...
by Barry Creamer | Nov 3, 2021 | Devotionals
Fifteen minutes before midnight my eyes open without a prompt, but bleary. I don what I laid out before my nap, hoping the layers will be enough for a clear night dipping into the 40s. Within 10 minutes my truck is carrying me, my preloaded telescope and camera...
by Barry Creamer | Oct 27, 2021 | Devotionals
Dense vegetation lining the creek bed across the street from my home houses ants, rats, opossums, squirrels, raccoons, hawks, owls, bees, and an uncatalogued menagerie of other species, all sallying into the neighborhood occasionally, just as the undergrowth itself...
