Almost Time to Fly

Almost Time to Fly

The whisperings of our potential ring throughout nature in the most unlikely of places. I walk my trashcan back after pick-up. Sure wish that emptied can smelled better than it does. Even though the better part of me doesn’t want to look inside, I can’t...
Why I’m a Christian Before I’m an American

Why I’m a Christian Before I’m an American

  “New Jerusalem–that’s my home. Let me put it in a song So you never get it wrong.” -Lecrae   This past Fourth of July, I was dealing with some internal conflict. On the birthdate of my country, I felt ashamed of my country. But I...
Death And The Ultimate Healing

Death And The Ultimate Healing

Thanks But No Thanks As a teen, I met a man of around eighty. He was at my high school, the location he’d arrived at to vote. We struck up a brief conversation before my day started and he went home, having done his civic duty. He shared with me about his life and I...
The Path You Must Take

The Path You Must Take

The Same and Different A man lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer, his emaciated body filled with suffering. He is ghastly. Another man struts through a nearby office building in the prime of life, wealthy and in need of nothing. He is handsome. Could there be a...
Letter to My Stillborn Brother

Letter to My Stillborn Brother

Dear Jeffrey, You would’ve been four the year I was born and my only older brother. That’s not how it turned out, huh? It’s crazy to think that you died during birth, unable to experience even a breath outside the womb. You were only a word frozen in time to me as a...