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Stubborn Self
I shudder to realize how stubborn my flesh-self (a friend of mine calls it the false-self) is against yielding to transformation. This isn’t the real me anymore, and I know it. But to know and not to...
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Confusion
Confusions says: Should we give up because of a snag, is this God’s way of giving us a graceful way out, or do we press forward confident in our decision? I’m talking about buying a house. It’s a lot...
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Dig the ditches
Tom came home from a day with the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit. One talk left him reflective. The speaker uses 2Kings 3:9-20 as a focal illustration of audacious faith. Tom believes we...
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Really? A chapter in a book?
I’m looking forward with some trepidation to the release of Jim Henderson’s book The Resignation of Eve. I’m in it. A whole chapter. Now that the book is actually being released (Feb 1), I’m a little...
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Life happens
We were making last minute preparations to drive 11 hours to visit with my Daddy we received a message that my sister’s brother-in-law had died in the night. My Daddy is growing frail and facing many...
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to “church” or not to “church”…
Last night we had a wonderful time with some new friends of ours – Drive to Sioux Falls, leisurely dinner at a nice restraunt, then to the Symphony (Mahler’s 5th). What a wonderful time! These folks...
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thoughtful pause….
I just finished reading The Resignation of Eve and my brain is on overload. I’m not ovewhelmed by the content, but by what has happened in my life since my interview to substantially expand on how I...
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Selfish
I am sitting in Daddy’s hospital room feeling rather selfish. I keep saying (and feeling) that I don’t want to watch him suffer. Yet… I do want him to live the rest of his days to the fullest. The two...
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At the gut level.
Learning to live by the Spirit is not always simple or easy. I fight it with all of my human-ness sometimes, and often without even realizing that is what I’m doing! I hate conflict. I hate it when I...
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Friend in pain
When my friend was facing a devestating and difficult to treat cancer, I faced many emotions – for myself, and ‘on her behalf’. I knew that I could in and of myself do nothing to change her prognosis,...
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Give it up, lay it down, walk away.
After reviewing my part of the struggles as per a conversation yesterday… and not sleeping much, I eventually started processing: I had a problem, I even created a problem; something went wrong. The...
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Gratitude
My inner life has deconvolved to a series of “what next” and “what other”. I so envy those people who proclaim “I’ve discovered my life work – this, right here, right now, was what I was meant to do...
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Thankful – but for everything?
This morning’s post was a good start to get the ball rolling. No, not to get it rolling toward me, myself and I (that well known committee) enacting measures or even taking a vote. What is happening is...
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Inspired and Tired
Well, God is at it again. I don’t suppose He ever stopped, but perhaps I effectively stopped listening. la, la, la la I can’t hear you? All the while, I’m begging for Him to speak into my life. I...
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Reflections from the Fog
I have a horrific head cold. Yuk. So, it seems like my thoughts are all like vague shapes seen through a fog or snow storm. Yet, sometimes when I can’t process as much out of logic, I’m nore open to...
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Dirt Therapy
I joke sometimes about “dirt therapy”, because I usually find digging in the dirt, and planting in the dirt, to bring me a steady, wholesome kind of pleasure. I ususally even enjoy pulling weeds!...
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So weary of wondering and wandering
I may just know how the children if Israel felt wandering in the wilderness all those years, and wondering what the promised land would have been. I know they KNEW where they took a wrong turn,...
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Transforming the ordinary
Jesus turned water into wine. His first public miracle didn’t save a life, release someone from demonic bondage, avert a disaster at sea. In fact the only benefit was that the party could continue....
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Light and Life, source and substance, All I need
Yesterday, I was contemplating marvelous, special encounters with Christ over the years, and how precious and difficult it is to write about those events that became gateways into a deeper...
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Are the results worth the effort? hmmm.
I’ve effectively wasted at least two weekends, and other hours besides (probably 30 or more hours altogether) trying to avoid spending a few dollars on a project. Ok, so I’m getting the cruise photos...
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