Category: 2025

  • Melt Me

    Melt Me

    This poem is inspired by a passage I read in the book “Deeper” by Dane C. Ortlund. In a section of the book that talks about santification and justification he writes, “You can’t crowbar your way into change. You can only be melted.” (pg. 91, Deeper) This was a paradaigm…

  • The Raging of my Landscape

    The Raging of my Landscape

    There’s another aspect to being salt that I never considered. The Bible calls us to season our speech with salt, but the kind of grace and wisdom we need to do that comes from God. It also comes from self-reflection. Meditating on the scriptures while you look at your own…

  • A Sober Mind

    A Sober Mind

    What I have written this week references 1 Peter 5:8. Where Peter tells believers that have been dispersed to various places to “Be sober minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” His use of the term sober minded equates to…