We are snowed in. Have been for days. White powder, like grace, covering the world as we know it. Leaving it…. Quiet. Dark. Still. And the cars. The noise. The tireless efforts of our lives….seems to come to a stop. Abruptly. Nestled in. Blankets chin high. Hunkered down tight. Like the clean, perfect white, layers outside. […]
I am a faster. No, not faster….but one who fasts. Not because I am super spiritual or have anything on anyone else. I have simply seen the power and grace poured out in abundant measure….. And know….as we humble ourselves….God reveals Himself to us. And one thing I am sure of….I need so much more of […]
It’s the drive that those who love, never want to take. The one where lives dangle from last breaths…..and winter has no spring coming. The time where no more stories will be told. No more eyes will see…..the beauty of God in Creation. In people. In this world. This God gift all around. And we make […]
Word Unspeakable. Offensive. Disreputable. Disrespectable. Disregardable to many. And it makes me question….. This word….is it part of our being? And do we often run from. Reject. Disown things that reflect pieces of ourselves we don’t like? The word? Homeless. And I question…. Does this word offend us….because Home isn’t in us? And this world…..though beautiful. […]
Though there are a million things to do….I open the Word this morning and read……“The rest”…in Hebrews. “Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall…..” And, I think of how…..“The Rest” is the same as the, “Be Still”. The knowing He is God that comes when we stop, take the time, make […]
I woke up with a thought….. “Jesus professed to be God”. And how no one….not Mohammed, or Buddha, or Gandhi, or Moses….. Ever said that they were in fact, Christ. And yet, Jesus professed…. He has been with God from the beginning of time. (John 17:5) And He was crucified because His claim didn’t change. (John […]