Parables & Precious Trials

  • When I Don’t Know If I’m Hearing God

    I’ve been told more than once by pastors and church leaders that “Bible dips” don’t work. You know, when you open your Bible at random and hope that whatever verse your eyes land on is God speaking directly to you. They say God doesn’t work that way. That it’s not divinely inspired, that it’s dangerous…

  • When God Showed Up Anyway

    —a reflection on faith, fragility, and unexpected grace— There’s a kind of guilt I never knew had a name.
 Not the kind that comes when something goes wrong.
 The kind that visits when things don’t go as wrong as they could have. My daughter is four.
 She has cancer.
 And autism.
 And she doesn’t speak—not with…