I grow weary of waiting to be more than I am…to overcome weaknesses of personality, of upbringing, of an underlying shortness of faith (for want of a better way to put it). Will I go to my grave frustrated at my feeble prayer life, for instance? Will I be forever fearful of the unknown, the […]
Do you travel light? I don’t; though it is an ideal I have crept toward over the years. To be able to travel light shines as an ideal only because I know what it is to travel HEAVY. When the babies were young and airlines used to let them fly free under 2 years […]
God is here in these moments as I finish up the supper dishes, everyone gone out for the evening but me, here, with Him. Grateful. There is no audible presence. No proof of His nearness. Just His Word, His oath—I will never leave you nor forsake you… Tonight that is enough. I walked this afternoon, […]
Sometimes you become the answer to your own prayers…It was this way for Moses I guess. One fine afternoon on the backside of nowhere he gets a call, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am”, he says. And the next thing you know God is saying, actually what matters is that “I AM” here. I’ve seen my […]
What do you do when faced with a lifetime built on the wrong paradigm? Thanks to the conspiracy of the Holy Spirit and the books that have dropped into my life this week, I’ve been reminded of a paradigm shift that is incomplete in my life–one of those belief systems that dies hard and must […]