https://soundcloud.com/mtullos/forgive-them-1 This is the first episode of seven on "A Scattered Feast" Season three. ____ I fell headlong into the chasm of my willful atrocities.Some subtle and slight. Under the…
No Such Thing as “Just a Mom”
Last Thursday, I was behind a lady at the grocery store. It’s a national chain, but not one of those fancy all organic places where they offer free samples of…
Ten Errors of First-Time Deacons
Welcome to life as a deacon! Always exciting, inspiring, fulfilling and self-satisfying. Wait… that’s not exactly true. Let’s start over. Welcome to life as a deacon! Much different than you expected (that’s a…
He’s Everything from A to Z
AUTHOR of my everything, my story A to Z BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR above, my blinded eyes can see COMFORTER of weary souls, COMPANION of the lost DELIVERER, DEFENDER despite…
Worst Day Ever
It happened at the start of my first year of junior high school. My dad got a new job in another state and so the week before school started, we…
I miss her.
Do you remember her? Our rhetoric was imperfect, but there were guardrails in the grooves of our brain that kept us from the dregs of profanity. Do you remember the…
5 Easy Ways to Share Your Faith
“I hear what you’re saying about sharing my faith but I have an allergic reaction to it, I break out in a cold sweat when I even think about prying…
Animal Prayer
Lord, I ask that Thou giveth me: the strength of the elephant and the lightness of a butterfly the patience of a snail and the speed of a jaguar the…
The Big Story
https://vimeo.com/423603752 We were born with a deep sense of eternity. It’s inside us It’s echoes through our doubts and struggles for meaning and hope But we must ask… IS this…
Lamentations Before Sunrise
We are all unwilling recluses. We know the trifles of distraction that pull us away from the tethers of reality In the morning, we wake from restless sleep and fearful…