Without a doubt, Joseph's profound fear of God not only holds him steady through all his experiences as a slave in Egypt but also becomes...

We so often hear the sound of a thought without thinking. God is God. And we rush right on, wanting something more. There is no more. We...

A touch of love and petals open, blossoms burst through snowy bark, eaglets dare the mountain gorges, songbirds giggle...

All I want out of life is Heaven--Adam's Eden is long dead . . . But sometimes still a buttercup evening springs Gold shadows...

Waves, tumbling broken shells in the unbroken crash and hush of tide, skidding to shore and crawling backwards, spent, subdued, gurgle...

She pulls her silver in patient ripples, stringing adhesive wire from spoke to spoke, clasping one circumference and another, and...

Like a hot air balloon of gasping brightness, The sun ascends the gravity of night, Flames into a blinding, red-gold ball...

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--three very human patriarchs who each spoke directly with God and whose prayers and altars are recorded in...

A Bit of Grace Jacob deserves a bit of grace for being the one of two sons who had a heart for God, despite all his flaws. It is easy to exaggerate his flaws by interpreting his whole life in a negative light. However, rather than taking our liberties to infer, and always with a twinge of self-righteous smugness, that he was a "sneak" or a "cheat," we can abide faithfully with the text and refrain from judging. God does not call Jacob these things; Esau does, and his view

Sibling Rivalry Follows Jacob Twenty years had passed since the day Jacob set foot in Paddan-Aram with nothing more than his shepherd's staff. At least seven of those years had flown by as if in a matter of days as he worked to wed the love of his life, Rachel. The next seven passed in a web of intrigue and rivalry as he still worked for Rachel, having been tricked into first marrying her older sister, Leah. What was Laban thinking? After that first week of shock and dis