Category Archives: mania

Last Easter my son (three years old at the time) went to church looking for Jesus. Before entering the sanctuary, he knelt at the wire cross filled with flowers, took a yellow carnation from the white plastic bucket sitting on the ground, and added the flower to the cross. Then he yelled out, “I don’tContinue reading “The Secret Message of Easter”

While in a church office sorting through a worn cardboard box full of VHS tapes (big, black plastic rectangular boxes with film inside) I stumbled upon an unopened, still sealed in plastic-wrap VHS titled: mental illness and the church. The creators of this resource were decades ahead of their time (so much so, that theContinue reading “Bipolar Hallelujah”

Before the baby was born, prayers were whispered into the night that this new life would enter the world gently, safely, and surrounded by love. This was so. Thank you God. In the early years of baby food, diapers and tantrums, prayers were whispered into the night that the little one would grow to loveContinue reading “A Prayer for Supernatural Power”