(Matthew 16:21-23, Luke 24:44-45 TLB) Sometimes a verse stops me cold.  Urges me to park, roll the windows down, and listen hard. Until I hear what I’m meant to hear there. Today’s verse can feel like a harsh rebuke, but I don’t hear it that way.  Instead, I hear an invitation. To shift a mindset.…

(Mark 16:12 KJV) Two Mondays ago, literally as my blog about being swept away is posting (click here to catch up), I am being swept away . . . In a flood. Caused by a waterfall. Inside my house. At 2 AM. What sounds like rain rushing down a rain spout in a heavy downpour…

(Mark 16:1-11 TLB) Before diving into Mark’s narrative, I jot a prayer in my journal. “Sweep me into their day so that I might see You in mine.” And I am. Totally swept into the story of the three women who meet an angel at the empty tomb on Easter morning. And swept away by…