Who are you? (NOTE: This is still in progress … fine-tuning when I have a moment). Single? Married? Divorced? Liberal? Conservative? Agnostic? Christian? Muslim? White? Black? Brown? Pretty? Blonde? Skinny? Weak? Strong? Rich? Poor? Successful? Addicted, Depressed? Carrying anxiety? Weighted down …? What did we miss? When you wake up in the morning (or in […]
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The Color of Disconnection
I wish I could just channel the words from my brain and my heart because every time I try to think of the right word or the right way to say something it causes me to stop and think and then rewrite and reconsider and doubt. What I want to say and express is a […]
Read More →Get behind me, Feelings!
“If what you believe does not reflect the truth, then what you feel does not reflect reality.” – Neil Anderson Feelings are amazing and beautiful and absolutely necessary, but never at the expense of truth. When our behavior is dictated by our feelings, we may act irrationally, believing we are absolutely RIGHT about something, but […]
Read More →Honor your Neighbor as Yourself
Love is fascinating. It evokes immediate understanding, but is at the same time extremely ambiguous and complex. Love is mentioned a few times in the Bible (understatement much?). Almost everybody has heard the epic and often quoted 1 Corinthians 13, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it […]
Read More →Raise a Standard or be Amused?
As a Christian in my “toddler” stage, I am at a point where I know what I need to do, but I have a hard time keeping on task. REALLY "walking the walk" takes focus and commitment, and there are a LOT of distractions. Now more than ever, I KNOW that I need to put […]
Read More →Reflect it Forward
About a month ago I quit drinking alcohol. This pronouncement came after months of trying to brute-force-will-power-justify my way there with no success. (Here is the story if you’re interested… Spoiler Alert: It was the HOLY SPIRIT!) With the new found freedom of the alcohol monkey off my back, I have felt empowered and inspired […]
Read More →Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Am I perfect now? NOOOOOOOO. My pride still controls me. It is my nemesis. I hang on to it with every fiber of my being. It sucks. I pray for humility daily, yet I am still stuck in Romans 7:19. But… this does NOT mean that I am not going to change. Pride is destructive, […]
Read More →Utmost.org – Daily Devotions by Oswald Chambers
http://utmost.org/ One of my favorite devotionals. Good stuff, daily. Simple, but always profound.
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Read More →The Battle
It’s been a tough year. That’s an understatement. Relationship. Finances. Depression. IMMENSE stress. Ugh. Without going into a lot of details, we have been on a rollercoaster. Fighting a battle. Coming closer together. Expectations, disappointments, sometimes two steps forward and one step back, sometimes one step forward, TWO steps back. Exhausting. A good night’s sleep […]
Read More →When you build it HE will come
I like my house. I like where I live. I like my neighbors. But our house needs a lot of work. It’s mostly cosmetic and minor flaws, but things that remind us daily that we have work to do. Bathroom floors, hardwoods under old carpet, a few holes in the wall, an old deck … […]
Read More →Learning to Fall
Becoming a Christian later in life is kind of like learning a new sport as an adult. I skied for the first time in my early 30s. I had never been super athletic. I liked to bike ride, could swim, and didn’t mind taking a walk or hiking on a trail, but that’s about it. […]
Read More →Hope = Patient Endurance
Hope Floats. Hope Springs Eternal. Hope Chest. I hope I get that new job I applied for. I hope my car starts tomorrow. I hope… When hope is used as a verb for most people, it is a wish. Something wanted, but not certain. Otherwise, wouldn’t we say, "I EXPECT that I will get that […]
Read More →My Walk Mix
I LOVE music. Caveat: Since I am in my mid-40s and no longer “cool,” there is really a limited perspective here on music that may be lost on people who aren’t within 5-10 years of my age … Or maybe this happens to everyone, I don’t know. I’m OK with that, because this first part is […]
Read More →Gettin’ some Religion Part 1: Jesus is not a picture on the wall
Thinking back about what “religion” or “God” or “Christianity” meant to me as I kid was more about what it WASN’T than what it WAS. My family wasn’t very religious. We were “Methodist” which didn’t mean much to me except it wasn’t one of those “crazy” denominations … although I’m not sure exactly what that […]
Read More →God Skies, Triggers, and Santa.
I was driving west on I-90 to pick up Maya at school today and noticed the amazing “God Sky.” Some time ago I heard someone call those gorgeous, fiery, orange and red skies this time of year “God Skies.” I guess they’re ALL God Skies, but sometimes they stand out more than others. Today’s God […]
Read More →I want to be a Jesus Freak. Chapter 1
How far do I go back… That can get hairy and ugly. For this FIRST chapter, I am going to describe WHERE and WHEN I realized that I WANTED TO BE A JESUS FREAK. GETTING BACK TO CHURCH. There was a LOOOONNNNGGGG dry spell. Left one church with the intention of finding a replacement shortly. […]
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