Substitute

The righteous begged and screamed to kill—my condemnation ringing in His ears.The scourgers dug deep trenches into flesh—my pain gushing from His veins.The soldiers hailed the imprisoned King—my shame unclothing Him. The nails fastened Him hard to grief—my sin setting Him to hang. The wrath of the Father crushed Him there—my sentence served. His breathing struggled, slowed, and […]

One Road

One road, laid out ages before the birth, stone by stone, step by step through common dirt. One road, and only One able to walk the length, the thorny way testing yet proving His strength. One road, unthinkable to us, but onward He trod through the cross, through the tomb, to the right hand of […]

Opinions

Deep in the lonely forest, thoughts swirl and howl like the wind, echoes of the words the people say. They swarm like sunshine to warm my path, then, without a warning, gather like storm clouds to strike it dead. Is wisdom a whim-full, wandering wind, that anyone may read from the sky with the authority […]

February Daffodils

Oh daffodils! You eager things! Poking your sunshiny heads out at the mere suggestion of Spring when all the wise flowers doubt the winter wind’s hot air. Yes, they will arrive uncrumpled to May, but you had a crystal crown to wear when snowflakes flew today.

Living Trees

The skeletons of the trees are not the dead things they used to be to me. I grow older, and the winter folds her hope into the cold with gentle fingers. The moonlight lingers, the starlight sings her melodies to seasons while the trees, donned in mere bark, freeze. The empty, graying hands rise and […]

Corrected Lens

I love you, Lord, not for the road to my own castle that I took you for, but for You Yourself— the end of every road I take.

Night and Day

They meet at the edge of the world— the soft, pink pillow of the sun and the cold, navy runway of the stars— two as different as they come. And if they refused to be seen together, the children of earth would live and die without ever seeing a sunrise.

January 7, 2026

Who would think it January? Not the birds chatting eagerly as they zoom from branch to branch, not the tiny blue flowers, newborn among the weeds, and not I, warmed by sunshine and emboldened by the wind. Together, we savor this slice of Spring served so early in the year, the dead world stirring to […]

Midwinter

The color drained from the world; the shallow breaths of death moved across brown grass till nothing was left— except hope. And nobody could see it— except the birds, who carry it, beak-full by beak-full, all over the grey, the last ones who remember— nothing is really changed; life has only stepped away for a […]

Protoevangelium

“The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring […]

melenoria

Poetry