We have arrived—it seems too good to be true, and yet, here we are, unpacked and at home in a new place with a one-year lease. We arrived in town on a Monday morning with a job promised but no place to live. It was time to get our feet wet. We’d booked a hotel […]
Two men camped at the brink of the Jordan about to cross over to the land of their enemies. One wrestled the night away in terror and unbelief, intent on wresting from God what He had already promised: “I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea…” Gen.33:12 […]
Encouragement, whether you’re extending it or receiving it, requires faith. Ability to encourage is contingent on believing that what will be is more than what is now. It takes vision, hope in what is yet unseen. For faith is the stuff of things hoped for, things not visible, things yet to be… If I have […]
It’s the time of year for Christmas letters, time to re-cap what has transpired month-by-month in our lives. Births and deaths, weddings and vacations, accomplishments and happy memories. Meanwhile we relegate the sad, the bad, and the hopeless to wait in the closet till the Christmas letters are signed and mailed, or till we’ve pressed […]
After all the bliss and fuss of the holiday season it is good, essential in fact, to rest awhile, to sleep in a bit, to sit and collect thoughts, to refuel…I find myself not yet ready yet to produce many words. May I offer you instead some passages I’m meditating on… I Samuel 30. David’s […]