Our world is filled with hurting people. We’re among them because of some offense that has touched us. I was standing on a corner in an over-populated city the other day, just people-watching, and noticed how so many looked like they were carrying something heavy inside. I checked my reflection in the coffee shop window just in … [Read more...]
What If?
What if – two words that can be debilitating, if we let it. Most of us don’t deal well with the unknown. I used to like to see what was up ahead until I got there. Now, I'm fine to just wait it out. We're wired to worry when social media (and our imagination) reminds us that everything today seems to pose a threat to our … [Read more...]
If You Knew
Picking up a pen can be painful if you use it to write down your heart. I do – I journal. And so I had to write. The other night I was with a few friends and you know how conversation can get tricky when you talk about knowing God. Or Him knowing us. Interesting how that topic comes up when things aren’t going well – we … [Read more...]
Hope
One good thing about shoveling snow is the surprise of uncovering flowers along the way. It exposes hope . . . And the amazing thing about nature is how God gives the ability to recreate. I count on it when I look down-deep beneath the drifts and know there is life in the cold earth just waiting to rise again. … [Read more...]
Well of Meeting
What do we do with a lifetime of bad choices – simply quit and believe this is it? It doesn’t have to be the ending to our story. It wasn’t the ending for an unnamed woman whose story is in the fourth chapter of John – forty-two verses are devoted to her in the longest recorded dialogue Jesus has with anyone in the … [Read more...]
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