Jul 22, 2020 | adventure, Art, Aspen viewing, authenticity, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, Living Spiritually, Nature photography, Spiritual Formation, Writing |
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen I was ten, I tried to invent the zip-line! Instead I broke my tibia and fibula. A compound fracture. I languished in the hospital forever and wore a stone-like a cast for months. It was the dark ages before physical therapy. I think some...
Jun 24, 2020 | Bible, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Jesus, Living Spiritually, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes Even Jesus’ everyday movements carried a message. “Jesus withdrew from that place,” Matthew, one of Jesus’ biographers, tells us. Jesus had healed a man’s crippled hand. This deformity had thrust him into financial and relational...
Jun 10, 2020 | authenticity, Bible, Christianity, Community, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God, God Sightings, Health, Jesus, Living Spiritually, Nature photography, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes Once there was a pastor who was carrying the weight of the world, his congregation, his family, and his own life all in one fallible body. Sunday after Sunday he brought this weight and God’s Word into the pulpit. Until one Sunday. That...
May 24, 2020 | authenticity, Christianity, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, Hope, Living Spiritually, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 3 minutes Complaining, blaming, excusing, and shaming are different facial expressions on the same worried face. We’ve all heard (and done) our share recently. It’s a face that denies the pain, the wound, the problem. And in denial...
May 10, 2020 | Bible, Christianity, creation, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Living Spiritually, Meaning, Nature photography, poetry, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized |
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mom, you were no where near as delicate as the roses you grew. Thank God for that! You were a beautiful but hardscrabble woman. Sometimes a bit thorny too. That combination may have been part of why people walked for city blocks to view...
May 6, 2020 | belonging, Bible, bible conversation, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Living Spiritually, loneliness, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized |
Reading Time: 6 minutes At one time I described myself as fearless. In the way pop culture defines it. I love adventure. I’m a risk-taker. I don’t worry obsessively. I sleep well, mostly. But then I have these memories. I was five. I heard a thunk upstairs. I...
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