Love Hates

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” — Romans 12:9 Love. We celebrate it. Write songs about it. Build weddings around it. Tell our children to choose it. Hate? Not so much. We speak of hate as if it’s always the enemy of love. But Paul doesn’t. In […]

The Bovine Chronicles I

Mildred Moo! Mildred Moo! What Betsy Moo? Gurtrude Moo has fallen down the hill. Oh my, is she still down there? Do we need to go help her? It’s no use, she can’t move, she thinks she broke her T-bone and bruised her Filet. Poor girl. I know right, but I kept telling her she’d […]

We All Lost

We all lost. Words were said. Actions were taken. The reactions of hurt, pain, or simply the pride of being the one who wasn’t wrong. But we all were wrong. We lost. It was a big price to pay. From the outset, we didn’t realize there was no way to win. Yes, we may have felt like we […]

Quit Rewriting People’s Stories!

“Don’t rewrite someone else’s story based on your insecurities.” Steve Gilliland Wow – Just Wow! There’s something about that quote that feels very Jesus-ish, isn’t there? Like…how many relationships have been wrecked because somebody interpreted silence as rejection?Or distance as betrayal?Or someone else’s success as proof of their own failure? We do this. We take […]

What We Hide Behind

We know. I mean, we really know. We’ve read it—articles, threads, comment sections that somehow turn into debates about everything and nothing.Books stacked on nightstands.Blogs bookmarked for “later.” We’ve heard it—podcasts in the car,sermons on Sunday,voices through speakers telling us what matters, what works, what’s next. We know. We know.We know. And there’s this strange comfort in […]

The Most Dangerous Kind of Love

We tend to think hate is the most destructive force in the world. Hate starts wars.Hate divides families.Hate scars people for years. And it does. But there is a kind of love that can do even more damage than hate ever could. Because hate doesn’t pretend to be anything else. Love does. Hate announces itself. […]