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The Earth Is His
A preschooler, I worry wide-eyed that the Rio Grande’s current will sweep me away with the car in which my parents have placed me. The water and flow rise with my terror, but the adults manage to forge the river safely back into Texas after our day of ministry in...
Birds Rushed In
According to this CBS News story (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bald-eagle-birds-migration-covid-lockdown/), the Covid-driven human hibernation of 2020’s spring likely prompted an ornithological flourishing: a significant increase in the presence of 80% of observed...
The Only Appropriate Response Is Humility
As I drive one morning to a preaching engagement, eastern sunlight gilds a foggy mist rising from the lawn on my left. Similar vapor ascends from a creek on the right. It is not fog, not a cloud: it gathers only above bodies of water or dew-laden lawns, returning to...
New Beginnings
He spent 17 years planting churches with his father in the Midwest—some still active today. He served in the Navy on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. He taught music at the collegiate level, then owned and managed a five and dime store, then a ranch, until he decided to make and...
The Storm Makes the Tale
In a journal I only recently saw for the first time, my Granny, deceased many years now, writes of an older relative who would tell her juvenile self and siblings ghost stories at night. The stories, she says, were so terrifying that at bedtime she and the other young...
Suffering Is Not an Afterthought in Christianity
A long wooden footbridge crosses an alcove of White Rock Lake. Pedaling across it one day, something coming from behind breaks the surface of my peripheral vision, head height, about 10 yards to the right, over the water. About a half-mile back I saw for the first...