[photo credit here]   i’ve seen  resurrection  with my own eyes.   if you know my soul-friends, you’ve seen it, too.   i don’t mean the body – don’t send your news vans and paparazzi; i mean something deeper. … Continue reading →

    Each year, on this day, I want my soul friends.  I want to be in their house, as in days past, munching on something Drason has cooked up,  sharing a couch cushion with Sonya, watching old movies or … Continue reading →

Pictured above: Winners of the 2011 Banebow 5K Fun Run/Walk Each year, we celebrate the memory of Bane Beasley with a birthday party that’s not your typical fruit punch-and-pinata fare.  His family, friends, and people who never even met him … Continue reading →

  two years into   this story:   the pain is still real.   the loss is still felt.   the Lord is still good.   and this face?   is still remembered.   We grieve fresh with the Beasley family … Continue reading →

photo credit here One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. (v.4-5) Push the right buttons, and you’ll see … Continue reading →

photo credit here   though the cassette tape borders on extinction, the mp3 playlist still doesn’t quite capture the nostalgia-borne beauty of the “mix tape.” i see myself, pimpled and pre-teen, hovering over my boom box in stonewashed denim, index … Continue reading →

photo credit here   Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? Isaiah 43:19 May the new life all around mirror the miracle of new life within …

photo credit here   gazing up at him, nailed there, out of the reach of her arms, the arms that had swaddled him on his very first day, she grieved an aching, wretched, human grief. i sit silent for her … Continue reading →

January 12, 2010. Haiti. March 11, 2011.   Japan. June 27, 2011.  Tennessee.   Two of the three are catastrophic acts of nature.  The third on the list was a disaster that seemed anything but natural.   A day like any … Continue reading →

  “When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.” ― Stephen Levine