It was time to go tend to him.  We had waited, waited, waited, in the agonizing depth of Sabbath-keeping stillness, bearing our grief...

Do you remember the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special? The one from 1964. I love that movie- it’s the only Christmas movie that I...

This morning’s theme is temptation and it’s not how we usually interpret it. In Gifts of the Dark Wood , temptation is not necessarily...

Have you ever felt totally lost? Like where you are just isn’t working for you, it’s sapping everything but you have no idea what’s next?...

Let’s start with a little bit of context to the scripture from the book of Job. Job is a good and Godly man, and then experiences a whole...

Emptiness. This morning’s theme reminds me of the Christian analogy that a person has a “God-shaped hole” within them. I remember being...

Throughout our lives, there are times when we find ourselves in what Dante and Rev. Eric Elnes refer to as the Dark Wood: a place of...

In the first chapter of his book Gifts of the Dark Wood ,   Rev Eric Elnes writes that his “book is about seeing life through new eyes,...