by Shelly Miller | Jun 3, 2013 | authentic christianity, READ
Lately, distraction is my closest companion. I sit down to look up an address on-line and before you know it, I’ve read three blog posts, checked my email, responded to a Facebook message and updated my status three times. When I get up, walk into the kitchen to pour...
by Shelly Miller | Apr 1, 2013 | i am bibledude
[serialposts]“What are you doing,” H asks me playfully as he barges through the door. We make eye contact and the smile on his face slides to a solemn slant as he pads his way slowly into the room. “Are you crying,” he asks before I can answer his first question....
by Shelly Miller | Mar 4, 2013 | PRAY, spiritual practice
Wearing her pink and green pajama pants and an overcoat, she scuffs through the kitchen into the garage. Kicks off her fuzzy slippers and pushes her feet into dirty garden shoes; balancing one foot at a time while holding her camera inside a plastic grocery bag. “What...
by Shelly Miller | Feb 4, 2013 | authentic christianity, for reflection
I met a girlfriend for coffee in the middle of the week, snatched an hour before afternoon carpool to catch up. And we had a lot of it, catching up. A wedding, two teenage car accidents between us, and leaving the church where we met since the last time we talked. It...
by Shelly Miller | Jan 22, 2013 | authentic christianity, bible literacy, i am bibledude, READ
[serialposts]My fingers tap allegro on the chair in front of me, keeping time to the rhythm of my heart when I look at the back of her teenage head, her waif frame knuckled between siblings. I know this feeling; it isn’t the first time it’s hovered over me in church....
