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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....

Documenting Majesty

“Don’t you wish we could save this view,” she says. It’s not a question.

We look across miles of mountain tops.

We’ve reached the peak of one of them and I snap pictures like a mad woman.

Until I turn off my camera.

It’s an impossible task. Documenting majesty. Who does that?

A week later, I sink my toes into red sand as the edge of the Atlantic pushes against my ankles.

I snap a picture.

It’s like a castle in a snow globe. A tiny, obscure castle in a snow globe.

A copy of a copy of a copy.

“Do you think there will be mountains in heaven?” she asks me.

I don’t answer. I don’t know.

There will be God in heaven.

I watch the waves churn. All of this creation. A copy of a copy of a copy.

It leaves me wanting more of something greater.

A day yet to come.

Glory.

“ ‘Behold the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.’” Revelation 21:3b 

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