Take me to the highest peak of madness Take me to the deepest pit of despair But leave me not in between, The numbing hell of the middle...

a face of beauty matters little when being seen becomes ugly a smile uncomfortably returned And a look hastily averted skin deep, arms...

The memory becomes more familiar, that idyllic setting from years before. That house on the hill, where life stood still. Children...

The natural, evolved response to the struggle of life is helplessness. It is to retreat into ourselves, it is to conserve energy and it...

Sadness is on me but I am not sad Sadness has come eventually he will go Joy is resting within me, at first they embraced. But now she is...

You who fear nothing Because you have a christ’s reassurance, of what has he really reassured you? Perhaps nothing is all the grace we’re...

the cold crisp air fills my lungs with life, the cold crisp air hits my face like a knife, the cold crisp air reminds me that i can die,...

Oh, what of the day's plans must wait, delayed by the rain. What kingdoms were to be conquered, what forts were to be built, what battles...

onward and upward the trail goes, it becomes steeper, narrower and the night grows near. its travelers grow weary, they worry that the...

I wonder. I wonder is at the root of innovation and at the root of story. I wonder if. I wonder what would happen if. I wonder if I...

We were lovers once. Betrothed from birth, the water did not let me forget. We embraced once, her arms were around my waist and my head...

In the years in which I was actively participating in the Christian faith community (over thirty five years), I heard some form of the...

Background information: The following was written as response to a question posed in The Good and Beautiful LIFE by James Bryan Smith. On...

I was born in the early 1980s to a world that was on the precipice of wide-scale and rapid change that would be brought on by...

Background information: The following was written as response to a question posed in The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith. On...

Background information: The following was written as response to a question posed in The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith. On...

Background information: The following was written in 2018. It was written in response to a sermon given by a pastor whom I did and still...

Background information: The following essay was written in 2017. At the time, I was in graduate school where I studied social work. The...

Background Information: The following essay was originally written in 2017. At the time I was in graduate school for social work. This...

Background information. The following was written in November of 2020. COVID-19 was still raging across the United States of America. The...