“God’s time for the performance of his promises is when it labors under the greatest improbabilities,” Matthew Henry, Commentary on Matthew 1. Last year was a Year of Broken Things. Major surgery for me, a massively destructive tornado in our community. Lives broken through illnesses, drugs and depression. Traditions broken, businesses broken, families broken through government-sanction quarantines. Man cannot fully … Continue reading →
I am on a journey – and it’s a journey with little rest. . . until the journey is over. Sometimes on this journey, I am tempted to stop, pull out a cushion of built of tasks completed, sit on it and sigh, “I have arrived. I have earned my rest free of the chaos, of doing-doING-DOING for everyone else. … Continue reading →
“Oh Come all ye faithful,Joyful and triumphant. . .Oh come let us adore Him. . .’ I love this song. I love it even more when Andrea Bocelli sings it . When Bocelli sings “O Come all Ye Faithful,” I am there that Christmas night when the angels appeared to the shepherds. “Come, let us adore Him” . . . … Continue reading →
Where are the sons? Where are the daughters?Who raised their hands in praise?Who went under the waterto be raised to new life in Christlittle ones for whom lifewas still so new?Their place in the pewsits empty, coldlike lost faithleft behind.What happened to prayers whisperedin teacher’s ears,who caught them to carry in their heartsthe sounds of surrenderto a Savior they believed … Continue reading →
The bible is full of stories about moms and dads who fail – sometimes they fail their kids, even their parents, and so many more times, they fail God. Yet God never once gives up on them. As a matter of fact, God seems to have a heart for those moms and dads – and kids who miss it – … Continue reading →
There is a King with a Heavenly castle who has a room just for me. . . who tells me I am His. The king with the Heavenly castle knows I can’t find my way home on my own. . . There is King with a heavenly castle who wages battle against those who set snares and would bar my … Continue reading →
I’m thinking of putting my Christmas tree up early. . . it’s the kind of year it’s been. It’s been a year requiring long waits – long waits for healing from spinal-fusion surgery. Many in our community have experienced long waits in temporary housing until “home” has either been salvaged, rebuilt or roots replanted due to the devastating tornado that … Continue reading →
I believe the hardest part of living is in the wait of a prayer sent out. I believe faith and trust in God in that hard wait is what we are called to learn – and in that learning – I find myself leaning in to the one who is working things out, fighting the battle, whether it is cancer, … Continue reading →
If you’ve felt like you’re about to get in troublewhen you walked into a frown,this book is for you. If you’ve ever worried you caused your friend’s frown, though you’ve thought and thought about what you did, when, really, you didn’t do anything at this book is for you. If you’ve ever thought an expressionless face meantyou weren’t liked this book is … Continue reading →
