Will this be life-giving for me?
How can we tell if something is alive? Biologists look for 5 traits, processes or functions as signs of life: metabolism (consume, construct, destruct, excrete) growth (learn, build, improve) reproduction (spawn offspring or ideas) responsiveness (sensitive, attentive, active) movement (action, progress, liveliness) These are the characteristics of life — the life of anything. That’s cool, […]
A Walking Advertisement for Christ
My salvation is an issue between me and my Maker and your salvation is an issue between you and Yours. My job, as one seeking to live a Christian life, is to be a good advertisement for the way to God demonstrated in the life of Christ. For me, that’s an in-body experience. If we […]
Should We Really Be Listening to the Student Who Got a C in the Class?
Fit2Finish friends, before you “like”, “share” or “sign up,” please find out who is supplying what you’re buying into. Ask these things: What are your credentials? are you an expert in this subject? (easy to Google!) Show me your references. Do you have publications which support what you are saying or selling? (anybody worth listening to has a body […]
I Am not A.I.
A.I., you and I are different. I feel. I feel the rays of the sun warming my face, the chill of the cold deep in my bones, the pressure of your hand holding mine and mine, resting in yours. I feel the jitters when test scores are posted, the wrenching when news isn’t good, the […]
What if we all claimed our anointing?
I want to do more than meet expectations or even exceed expectations. I want to chart a new course. I want to do things no one has done in a way no one has yet conceived. Not just to do them or to say that I have done them, but because… I want to lead […]
Cause to pause
Walking from here to there causes me to pause… and then to consider what else bids me tarry. prayer & meditation sunrise & sunset starry skies & awe children & wonder worship play dis-health & disease caring & loving table meals & table fellowship phone calls letter writing Christmas cards births & deaths weddings & […]
What do Santa and Jesus have in Common?
What do Santa and Jesus have in common? children sitting on his lap asking Christmastime Saintliness the whole world in one night led by a light Holiday Spirit gifts, warmth, kindness, love you gotta believe… or it’s just a story, a myth, long-told. Verses recited with option for annual renewal. Santa and Jesus, they both […]
Lions, Tigers and Bears, No Problem
There is a story about a boy, but not just a boy, a shepherd. He stood watch over his flocks day and night, protecting them from whatever might come to harm them. Lions and bears, he would fight off, with his bare hands, if necessary, for he had no weapons of war. No sword, no […]
I am that child
I just can’t imagine God saying, “Sit down and shut up!” Can you?Or, “Children should be seen and not heard.”Or even, “Sit still and mind your manners.” Yes, we are children, daughters and sons of the Most High. But, “sit up and eat your peas,” just isn’t the conversation I expect to have at the […]
The hardest-easy thing we ever have to do: asking for what we need
So many of us don’t ask for what we need. Perhaps because when we risk making a request, we’re met by a world that asks, “Do you really need that?” or “Is that a want or a need?” Because in so many places – at least in the circles where I listen in – we have […]