READ: JOB 40:15-24; PSALMS 57; 142 The young man leaned heavily against the cave’s wall. He gasped for breath, clutching a wound at his side where blood seeped through his shirt and stained his fingers red. “You promised,” he spat into the empty cave to the God he once trusted. “You told me it was [...]

READ: PSALMS 8:3-4; 19:1-4; 90:1-2; 139:5-12 "Do you ever get tired of it?” Clara asked her best friend Harriett as they watched the acrobats flip through the night sky. Fire cascaded in fountains of blue and orange from the mouths of fire-breathers. Parrots squawked, lions prowled, and dancers spun in dizzying circles. When Clara was [...]

READ: PSALMS 51:7; 103:8-12; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 The midnight bell tolled as Freya stood before the stone steps of the king’s library. She shut her eyes and for a moment she was just a child again, lying on the deck of her mother’s ship, black sails snapping above her in the wind. She saw her [...]

READ: PSALM 56:8; ISAIAH 53:3-5; HEBREWS 4:14-16 She was sick and had been for a long time. Her siblings were at school and her parents were at work. All she had to keep her company was the rain tapping at her window. No one understands what it’s like to be sick all the time, she [...]