Aliel Cunningham

  “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.” Seasons… this is a foreign word for most of us in the modern world where light does not depend on the time of day nor our food options dictated by the time of the year. We feel the change in the…

Stuck…  It is one of the most demoralizing words in the English language. It always has a negative connotation to it – I’m stuck in traffic, stuck at home, stuck between a rock and a hard place…  What does it mean to be stuck? At its emotional core, there is a hopelessness to the word…

This  My word for this year has been “banquet” and for all my good rationale at the start of the year as to why “banquet” would be a rich word to ‘feast’ on in the months to come, I found that I have not really stopped to reflect on this word much since. The cold…

Every year April Fool’s day holds special significance for me. It is my official “half birthday” landmark.  This year I mark my halfway point to my 41st birthday. I have already survived the dreaded “over-the-hill” birthday and I am debating whether I should keep celebrating half birthdays since the once a year birthdays seem to…

FMF:  {Provide}  I felt helpless as I watched tears fill her eyes as we talked.  So much of our conversation had been about what was not right with the world.  What may be even the more difficult to face was what was not right in the world of her heart.  So, much pain that had…

The title is not mine.  I glimpsed it more than once on different blogs and sermon series titles, but the words in this title did make me step back and think… wrestle with whether I thought they hit upon something deeper than a catchy title.  I was trying to sort out mingled thoughts and emotions…

“I can’t believe you would do such a thing!” This is how one of my friends responded recently when I told her of my shocking habit of reading the last page of a fiction book before I read anything else. I have received this reaction more than once when trying to explain my reasoning.  Typically,…

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves,  When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little. When we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore.  Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we posses  We have lost our thirst for the waters of…

In Acts, Christians were accused of turning the world “upside down” as they followed in Jesus’ footsteps who said, “the first shall be last and the last shall be first.”  Trying to grasp what the Kingdom of Heaven is like is finding yourself with Alice in Wonderland where “nothing is as it seems.”  The Kingdom…

Do you remember telling me you found the sweetest thing of all  You said one day this was worth dying for  So be thankful you knew her at all  But it’s no more  ~Dido (See the Sun) Recently I was listening to an interview with Walter Hooper – the main editor of C.S. Lewis’ works…