The Blame Game
I don’t know if it’s the placement of the moon or the time of the year, maybe hurricane Ian blowing through but it seems the last few weeks the proverbial ‘finger pointing’; blaming, shaming, whining, and complaining game has reached a fever pitch… Ah…just remembered, Election season…got it… I’ve often asked myself ‘why’ it’s so […]
Sun, Waves and Memories
The memories washed in wave after wave rushing to fill every gap of her soul as she waded through the past collecting images like picking up seashells. The perspective of childhood brings a stillness and reverence to something ignored. She didn’t know or understand what was happening during the events from her past, but years […]
Navigating the Heart
Does God judge us on our performance around following the rules? Does God really care about us acting like something we aren’t? Let’s be honest, the forgiveness of sins is just that…a gift of forgiveness because of something we are…not something we aren’t and it isn’t based on performance. Navigating the turbulent seas of our […]
Why go it Alone?
Matthew chapter 3 John the baptizer is officially out in the wilderness doing a new thing. He is preaching the repentance of sin and if a locust lands near him it turns into a ‘repentance snack!’ (In America we would have a tee shirt already) 🙂 Over the years I’ve come to believe that one […]
Oh the Rage
You would think, in our ‘enlightened generation’, we would know better, but the emotion of rage has gone from something that is rare to a 24×7 stream of consciousness that we are kinda proud of. I was thinking this morning as I made my frequent pilgrimage to the dump that more than ever, opinions are […]
The Unbearable Weight of Grace
There are times when something triggers thoughts, energy, and words in me and I find myself, like the villain in the first Incredibles movie, saying, “You sly dog you got me monologuing!” Poor Elizabeth… Recently my thoughts, like a morning fog, drifted over the landscape of my life to a time when everything was clear, […]
This I love More
It’s cold outside, the sky burns bright blue that almost hurts to look at as the poignant pines prickle my senses and soul…it’s a mountain morning in the Smokies of North Carolina. The view, over the undulating land, looks as if oceans waves have been frozen in time and covered in velvet. The stationary energy […]
Alignment
As the sun cascades down, light like a warming blanket draped over your shoulders, the glistening reflections of light twinkle gently off the needles of the frozen evergreens reminding me of the ever-flowing and changing life we all face. Almost every moment can have its beauty if one stops and looks for it. Whether you […]
Leverage Your Life
I want a phrase/question to sink deeply in as you read this. What does it mean to leverage your life? Most of us think of leverage as a way to move a large object or to overpower a situation with leverage. What if, as Christians, God is asking us to leverage our lives …to use […]
Quest for Answers
Faith during suffering is hard. Too many times I have suffered or watched others suffer and then, like an avalanche, questions pour in trying to make sense of it all. For example, I see something happen to my wife, if she is treated unfairly, or someone is rude to her, and I totally flip my […]
