Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m bewitched by aspen trees. Have been for years. They are complex, moody creatures. Their dark eyes are windows into …
Five Truths I Learned about God, Life, and Myself in an Aspen Grove Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Does our division as a world, country, and church stem from the fact that we are afraid to admit our …
Sunday Psalm: An Honest Prayer Asking God for Forgiveness, Redemption, and Renewal Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes God set light in the heavens to mark a boundary against the dark. God set praise in our hearts to …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Once upon a time the children still believed in The Heart Man.* A myth about a dark and dangerous man …
The Disastrous Case of Your Stolen Heart and How to Recover It: Part One Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes My first job at eleven years old was manning a massive industrial lawnmower and cutting the huge lawn for …
Reading Time: 5 minutes A divinely inspired imagination can bring peace of mind and actually develop faith.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A WINTER PSALM As winter yearns for spring, As a frozen river anticipates thaw, O Lord, We wait on you, …
Winter Prayer: A Cry for Relief when Hope Is Frozen Read More »
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.
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.
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.