Why is it that everything God does can be disputed? I just read the Pentecost account where the people came running to see what had happened because they heard the “mighty rushing wind.” At least fifteen different people groups were represented in those who heard the 120 disciples speaking in unlearned languages. Each of them …
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Thin Places?
Flowers saved me. Not like Jesus saves me, of course. But that’s what ran through my mind yesterday as I bent to smell the fuchsia peony. The scent of the flower next to the sidewalk took me back to my mother’s garden. In the emotional barrenness of my childhood on the farm, her peonies, lilies, …
Marathon Lessons
Two weekends ago during the Illinois Marathon, 14,000 runners passed by my 2-mile perch at the corner of Green and Race. Some aimed for 13.1 miles, others for the full 26.2. If the scenery in a city is the people, I got an eyeful. After the wheelchair participants, the first able-bodied man, African, way out …