I drove away from home this morning leaving my Macbook on to upload a large video file that would take two hours. Suddenly, a few miles from home, panic railroaded through my nerves. “The computer, it’s been overheating more than usual, oh my gosh, it’s sitting on my bed, the house is going to burn …
St. Paul wrote, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope to which God has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1:18). I’m drawn to stories of sudden spiritual conversions, where without warning, hearts shift focus, lives turn …
“I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.” (Isaiah 43:18-19) I know many people in transition. With high school graduation this week, many mothers organizing graduation parties for their beloved teens, are also tending a quiet …
I’m joining with the Five Minute Friday Community #FMF, to share this short, but hopefully meaningful post written in five minutes (with no editing). Hope you enjoy! I heard Nic Vujcic speak once where he described how his wife gave him a gift wrapped just the right way where he could pull and untie the …
We can’t avoid the dark night of the soul, or dark and challenging times of our life. Yet, at the first sign of the shadow of darkness moving toward us, we tend to run. Many hide from difficult times by becoming addicted to substances, food, work, or relationships. Trappist Monk Thomas Merton says …