When the Community Steps Back (Ps 88, Part 4)
You have taken from me friend and neighbour — darkness is my closest friend. Heman was not only in the dark. He was in the dark alone. The wound of being left is its own wound. Part four of A Slow Walk Through Psalm 88.
The Psalm That Does Not Resolve (Ps 88, Part 2)
Most lament psalms turn at some point — yet I will trust, but you, O Lord. Psalm 88 has no pivot. It ends in the dark. The editors knew, and they left it. Part two of A Slow Walk Through Psalm 88.
The Ministry That Outran You
The world is quietly walking away from hustle culture, and the church has not yet noticed. You are still going. The calendar is still full. And somewhere underneath, a question has started to surface — was this the shape it was supposed to take?
The Ache After the Crisis
The acute part is over. The phone calls have stopped. The casseroles have stopped. And you are not, in any sense fine. The church often does not have a category for the long middle — the person who survived but is still, in some genuine sense, carrying it.
Cure and Healing Are Not the Same
A cure is the removal of the problem. Healing is the slow restoration of the whole person. The church has used these words as if they meant the same thing. They do not, and the confusion is doing real damage.
The Mirror That Cannot Wound You
The lonely and the grieving are talking to a chatbot. It cannot interrupt. It cannot wound you. And that is the thing we have to look at honestly — because a relationship that cannot wound you is, in the same motion, a relationship that cannot love you.
If the Lord Had Not Been On Our Side
Psalm 124. A song sung after the danger has passed, after the floodwaters have gone down. The whole psalm is a backward look — and it asks a question of us we almost never stop to ask.
Waiting Without a Promise
Most Christian teaching on waiting assumes you know what you are waiting for. But the reality is less clear. You are waiting, but you have no promise about what is going to be given.
