Go Ahead. Indulge Your Nostalgia.

But use it to praise God’s goodness, not a romanticized past.
This time of year, I’m seeing double. I view things as they are and as they used to be. The school bus up ahead flicks out its stop sign, and there I am, disembarking as a child. B…

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Even the Rocks and the Cacti Cry Out

A recent trip to Joshua Tree National Park brought home the wilderness of Lent.
Joshua Tree gives me the creeps. The landscape unnerves me—dirt, dust, cactus, and, of course, the trees themselves, scaly and spiky and twisted. They’re lined …

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