A Prayer for Blessing the Work of our Hands
Reading Time: 3 minutes My first job at eleven years old was manning a massive industrial lawnmower and cutting the huge lawn for …
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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.
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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Why Getting Dirty Is Healthy For You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hunting especially reminds me who I am and Who made me and who I can be. It places me back in the natural order where I belong. In God’s hand.
What I Want to Tell My Mom Today
Reading Time: 3 minutes We were all amazed you hacked heaven out of a patch of dirt between a parking lot filled with second-hand cars and the apartment building you managed filled with second-hand people. You loved both the roses and the people nearly equally. I don’t know if you know, that rose garden is still there, seventeen years after you last fertilized it. Thank you, Mom. You reflected a beautiful but hardscrabble God to us in that rose garden and in your very life! I love you.
Finding Your True Worth and Identity in a Word
Reading Time: 5 minutes You and I suffer the same snake bite. We question the worth spoken into us by our Creator. By doubting our original design from God, we lost touch with God as Creator. We search for validation in ill-written dictionaries, which cry: find your worth in your accomplishments, your bathroom mirror, your bank account, your philosophy, your social media likes.
A Twist on Tolkien: All Who Are Lost Wander
Reading Time: 5 minutes Of all the dogs I’ve owned, I loved the one I lost most. She was a black and white Springer …
The Poet and the Painter on Boundaries
Reading Time: 3 minutes When staring into the beautiful, boundless stars, wonder rises in me and becomes entangled with a shivering insecurity.
Lent: Blinded to God in Daily Life
Reading Time: 2 minutes I simply fail to see all the grand and glorious grace of God in my daily life and world. Sometimes I’m distracted, sometimes angry, sometimes tired, sometimes busy, most times full of myself. I’m blinded to God in my daily life.
A Ride from Death to Life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week I peddled my mountain bike up a chert strewn, sandy trail into mountains that resembled barren mounds some …