By faith, Alicia took to the dark roads. She put on that one song that reminded her to be bold. She rolled down the windows, turned up the heat, and poured her angsty heart out to the one who created the mountains on her left. 

During a recent discussion about the Holy Spirit, I was asked by a pre-teen, “Is the Holy Spirit the same thing as our conscience?"

May we take the words of Isaiah 35:4 as our mantra, our kind word to ourselves and one another. “Be strong, do not fear. Here is your God.”

Psalm 77 urges me to remember the both/and of deliverance. The joy and celebration coupled with the grief...