What does it mean to grow close to someone in a healthy way? Is it a merging of souls, a fusing of identities? Do we not instead grow closer, perhaps intensely and intimately so, but still remain distinct? Tackling the question in the sphere of human relationships helps me make sense of what it means to grow into intimacy with God.
Read MoreMy new friend Kerry Egan spends her days with dying people, listening and talking. Those conversations come with her job as a hospice chaplain, but the way her eyes come alive when she talks about what she has learned shows that it’s also a calling.
Read MoreMy mom rocked me when I was little, holding me close. She sang sometimes, the rails of the rocker creaking in calming rhythm. One nursery ballad told of the unlikely courtship of a frog and mouse. It sounded fairytale-like, though looking back now it seems more like a portent.
Read MoreSometimes people who know about my past writing will ask, “Are you working on something now?” People might run into me at Indah or Drip--local coffee hangouts--my laptop open, and wonder.
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