Inspired Imagination: Your Superpower Against Worry, Anxiety, and Fear
Reading Time: 5 minutes A divinely inspired imagination can bring peace of mind and actually develop faith.
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Praying Like a Child: A Childlike Prayer for You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Philip Yancey’s book Prayer: Does It make Any Difference? opens with this: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, …
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Are You Burned Out on Religion and Life?Join Jesus!
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m rhythmically impaired. I stumbled (literally) on this fact in Navy Boot Camp. Marching was the approved way to …
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Winter Prayer: A Cry for Relief when Hope Is Frozen
Reading Time: 2 minutes A WINTER PSALM As winter yearns for spring, As a frozen river anticipates thaw, O Lord, We wait on you, …
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How to Quell a Riot? Read a Poem!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I believe in poetry. But I’d forgotten. The last few months of our pandemic dominated, politically divided lives made …
How God Rekindles Your Hope in Darkness
Reading Time: 5 minutes On December 31, 1977 I sat fidgeting with the buttons on my flannel shirt in The Red-Headed-Wildflower’s parent’s living room. …
How to Celebrate a Christmas Haunted by Ghosts
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ghosts have haunted many of my Christmases. Not in the terrifying way Charles Dicken’s ghosts haunted Scrooge. But much more …
Seven Amazing Ways Our Puppy Taught Me How to Be Happy
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s hard to be cross with someone who exhibits that much enthusiasm for life. Misery may love company but tail-wagging creates a party.
Is Being Vulnerable a Powerful Trait
Reading Time: 5 minutes There sat the lost, the found, the diseased, the dying, the divorced, the prosperous, the poor, the married, the single, the pretenders, the sexually abused, the jobless, the parents whose beloved had committed suicide, seekers, finders, sleepers, critics, young, old, hopeful, hopeless. The usual.
Why A Cry of Lament Is Crucial for Your Healing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lament is a crucial aspect of spiritual formation because it connects our hearts to God’s heart.