On Falling in Love

On Falling in Love

It’s springtime. And John Steinbeck has some advice: First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing. Just in time for the season, a dear friend passed along to me Steinbeck’s beautiful letter on love. He’s responding to a letter in which his oldest son...
Demi asks, Do you love me?

Demi asks, Do you love me?

Our friends-in-Christ over at Mockingbird picked up this heartbreakingly honest interview with Demi Moore.  Midway through the interview, Demi’s asked about her deepest fear: “If I were to answer it just kind of bold-faced, I would say what scares me is that I’m...
Suffering Love: On What the World Does to Children

Suffering Love: On What the World Does to Children

During the first week of my long retreat I was having disturbingly vivid dreams about wounded children. Every morning I’d awake having dreamt of kids in hospital beds, kids with swollen limbs, kids with gaping wounds that covered their bodies.  Terrible.  At the...