Random Beauty
Sitting in the chapel on a Sunday afternoon before an ordination service, I found myself continuing a study I began during another service there: looking for a pattern in the stained glass windows. (It’s an odd habit of mine, along with counting things.) Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Humbled
I was at the church late one weekday afternoon and saw something interesting: A woman leaving the lobby pressed the blue automatic door opener button and made the sign of the cross on her forehead, heart and shoulders as she walked out. I was amused at first by what looked like an act of mistaken church identity because she did what Catholics do as they dip their fingers in holy water and leave the church. But the more I think about it, the more I see it as her silent testimony. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
For Wilshire Baptist Church
My work introduces me to interesting people, and last week it was Tom Hoitsma, a Dallas-based abstract expressionist artist. He’s a tall man at 6 feet 4 inches whose finished works are even bigger at up to eight feet by six feet – a size that involves not just his creative mind but his entire being. Continue reading “Head to Toe”
