"The image of her clutching the shirt he'd wriggled free from before fleeing Potiphar's house earlier that afternoon appeared like a storm cloud over the horizon of his mind. He could not envision a positive outcome."
Joseph’s Descent
Walking in the Darkness
"Night descended on the weary wayfarer, and with it came fears of thieves without and shivers from the cold within. Thick clouds hugged the earth and blocked out the moon and stars, and so the man walked down the dusty road beneath his thoughts and the suffocating darkness."
When His Body Fails
Yet they hurry by, can't stop. / There's pressing business on ahead, / And stuck sticks don't fit in their plans.
Hope in Lamentations
If "there may yet be hope" in the midst of the obliteration of God's people—if even then they can return to the King and find not merely pardon but one who will still their hearts, take up their cause, and fight for them—then perhaps there may yet be hope for you and me even now.
I Thought I Knew
"I had no idea of what it'd take to catch those deeper glimpses of your fierce and fiery grace, your glory both blinding and warm, or what it'd cost." But now I know.
Hope Up In The Air
"You cannot buy this confidence, this freedom, this hope, this security." But someone can give it to you for free.
The Gardener
She had a story to tell. It was the story of a God who raised both dead bodies and dead hope.
Loved Back Into The Light
"It’s the unknown that always undoes me. But it’s the Unseen that holds me together. And that week, the Unseen was at work. I was loved back into the Light" (Deborah Farris).
The Dead Girl’s Father
"Jairus wanted to push the woman aside, take Jesus by the hand, and continue their trek back to his house. Jesus held her hand and her gaze as if she were the only person there."
At the Door
A hungry beggar looked and asked, "Might he to one so mean impart / Such life and with it hope endow?"