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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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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What Is the Right Way to Pray?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The last time I saw Isabelle alive she was in the hospital after a heart attack. She was in …
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 …
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.
Why Conquering Your Fears Won’t Make You Fearless
Reading Time: 6 minutes Through their fear God was drawing close to them as they faced powerful enemies, dark nights, deep depression, doubt, frustration, hunger, and desolation. In their trouble, God spoke not demands but comfort. “I am with you. I will fight for you.” God spoke this comfort as a father sitting on the edge of his child’s bed during a terrifying thunder storm. He pulls the sheets up tight and whispers, “Fear not. I’m here. We’re in this together.”
One Word That Will Spiritually Transform Your Life
Reading Time: 6 minutes Words carry more than the power we invest in them. Sometimes they tote intrinsic weight. And when words are God-breathed! They live, their meaning not static but layered and complex and powerful! And as the Hebrew writer says, God-breathed words cut us like a surgeon, meat from gristle, truth from pretext.
How to Help God Transform Your Fear to Hope
Reading Time: 5 minutes Fear not! God has been here before. God stands ready, waiting for us—the orchestra—to pause and let the Soloist play. Unfortunately, if we play on, heedless to the signal, we leave God no room to perform. The musical score lies before us. Our participation with God in the silence can transform our fear to hope. The choice is ours.
Are You Afraid and Lonely? Pray!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prayer is to our relationship with God as sex is to a relationship with a spouse. Like sex, prayer can skim along the surface and be about what you get out of it. Or it can be intimate, vulnerable, passionate, diving deep into the mystery of two becoming one.
Simple but Powerful Daily Disciplines for Thriving in this Crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?