All Stories

they saw the cross

finding personal humility and grace for critics of our faith within the stories of our past

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

Weakness stretches out as endless rolling plains.
One thing do I see among those hills.
Like clouds and leaves and birds and insects twisting in chorus around the expanse.
Your grace.

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

Too woke to be silent.
Too comfortable to fight.
Complicit in the violence.
All talk no bite.

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

escapism

when distraction and dreaming create spaces to hide from the mundane, terrifying, and painful realities of life and the dangers of finding too much comfort in that place

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

The pains of morning
Gluttony, lust, greed, wrath, pride
I’m hungry for death

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

double-mindedness

a reflection on romans 7:15 which reads for I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate

to: old glory

explores the negative feelings that I feel toward our nation's flag as a direct result of the way far right culture has put it on their alter and made it their banner

America won
and traitor rebels lost, yet
you still fly their flag

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

depression

while walking through the valley for months, I couldn't see the depression that subdued my emotions and that I desperately needed to process

BOASTING IN WEAKNESS

addiction

after 25 years of quiet struggle and enablement when I was freed from the shameful hold of my addiction by grace from God and the support of my wife

We grow great by dreams. We little men are not dreamers. We grow bold from the lingering stench of our rotting ancestors and prophecies on the backs of our eyelids. Our dreams must die while others you nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always when we who sincerely blind have passed away. - w. wilson