Tag: resurrection
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The Currency of Chaos:
Why I Stepped Off the Algorithm’s Edge Early this morning after saying goodbye, and good luck to my granddaughter as she and family left for an early morning girls’ softball double header, with a fresh cup of morning coffee and in the quiet of what promised to be the picture of a peaceful Sunday morning.…
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Part 3: The Beautiful Struggle
Darkness, Seeds, and the Delivery Room Hey friend! In our first two stops along this trail, we looked at the kitchen glass and the literal bones protecting our chest to find the Creator’s signature. Today we are stepping outside into the garden soil and then stepping straight into the intensity of the delivery room, to…
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Birthday by the Sea
The Structure is Finished: Announcing Shore & Sand Co. The scaffolding is down and the doors are officially open. Today marks the birthday of Shore & Sand Co–my digital sanctuary shaped by forty-three years of God Winks, shoreline symbolism. and quiet ways a journey reveals itself. Shore & Sand Co began long before this website…
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The Cracking of the Shell
What a 43-Year-Old Sand Dollar and 30 Years of Nursing Taught Me About “It Is Finished” Forty-three years ago, a sand dollar was placed into my hands. I was young, unaware that this fragile, chalky white disc would become the anchor of my life–the quiet beginning of God’s relentless, loving pursuit of me through some…
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The Architecture of Brokeness
The Hidden Parable of the Day Five Shell We live in a world that fears being broken. Modern culture tells us to keep our outer shells flawless, polished, and perfectly presented. Even modern religion can fall into this trap, painting a fearful picture of a God who stands ready to shatter us in anger. But…
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The Casual Companion
Walking the Road to Emmaus We often assume that when God reveals Himself, it must be accompanied by blinding light, booming thunder, or overwhelming terror. We have been conditioned by a fear-driven narrative to think that the Creator of the universe only breaks into our world to police our behavior or hand down an ultimate…
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The Mistaken Gardener
The Grand Return to the Soil There are moments in the biblical narrative where a seemingly minor detail carries the structural weight of the entire universe. One of those moments happens in the early dawn hours outside an empty tomb (John 20). Mary Magdalene stands weeping in the morning mist, her heart completely shattered by…
