Only Love Can Do This
God doesn’t ever hope.God is hope.God doesn’t ever learn.God is knowledge.God isn’t ever uncertain.God is certainty. God doesn’t need faith.Doesn’t have to wait.God sees fullyand is fully patient.God doesn’t look for us.God sees us. God is love.Love creates.Love adds without subtracting.Love multiplies without dividing.Only love can do this.
Dismounting
Lord, bring me down off my high horse to mingle with the crowd; for they will teach me to follow you completely. You are there among them, riding on a donkey, on the colt of a donkey. Up here, I’ve just been making an a$$ of myself.
The Third Dimension
Lord, you pull me upward as circumstances pull me outward. Lo, there is a third dimension. Downward. Bent in silence. Focus me there. Where I am Deeply dependent on you.
Now I See
When I move, I see things differently. When I’m still, I see movement differently. When I love, I see both clearly. Be still, my love, and know that I am God.
How Long Does it Take to Grow Up?
Mommy, when you are a hundred, will you be as tall as the clouds? This, my little daughter asks me from her seat on the swing in our backyard. Her sweet up-turned face looks past me to the billowing clouds overhead. To her, growing up means growing taller so she can reach the monkey bars […]
There is no such thing as an innocent bystander
Standing by. It seems such an innocent thing. To watch and not take part. To hover and see who wins Then, unknown to my innards To jockey for good position In order to see how all this comes out. Spectating. Not rooting for or pulling against, Just waiting for it all to pass by. To […]
USWNT Head Coach Jill Ellis: Lessons for Success at Urban Soccer Symposium 2017
With Jill Ellis headlining the US Soccer’s Urban Soccer Symposium event, who’s gonna miss the opening kickoff? Not me. Coach Ellis lived up to her billing. Well-spoken, on-point, honest, and humbled by the recent poor (by USA standards) showing of the US Women’s National Soccer Team in the 2016 Olympics, Ellis provided some gems to coach by — […]
The Assignment of Your Life!
God spoke a word and you were you. God spoke another word and I was me. God doesn’t waste breath. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for […]
