all along
thought I was learning
how to take
how to bend,
not how to break
how to laugh,
not how to cry
but really I've been
learning how to die

—Jon Foreman, “Learning How to Die”

This Eastertide, I have the privilege of sharing some thoughts on death and resurrection for The Redbud Post, a monthly online magazine written by members of the Redbud Writers Guild. Its message strikes me as more true today than when I wrote it in March, through no brilliance of my own but because God is faithful to deepen and grow the thoughts he plants in my heart. Many times Every time I write—whether for this blog or for another publication—I write what I need to hear. I declare what I desperately need to be true. May these words serve to water the new seeds of life and resurrection that God is planting in you, even now.