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Christmas Journal

The Weary World Rejoices

I was attending a church many years ago that did not sing many traditional Christmas songs throughout Advent. When I asked someone about it, they expressed that they wanted to wait to sing the songs celebrating Jesus’s birth until Christmas Day. I was confused. Why wouldn’t you want to sing “Joy to the World” and […]

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Journal Poems

desolate lake

a lament. Late one night in October, after a pleasant day of adventures around Rifle Gap State Park and Rifle Falls State Park in Colorado, I felt unease in my soul. As I was getting ready to fall asleep, the tears came on strong. I had no words to describe where this anguish was coming […]