Suddenly gone: a season of loss without losing
Something was taken without your permission. Stolen while you weren’t looking. Nipped in the bud. Just as it was blooming, coming together, looking up, coming to fruition. So much hope. So much potential. So much. Without asking, they shut down your season, closed your show, before you even had a chance to take the stage. […]
Hold that finish!
“Behind every good _____, there’s a good ________,” they say. But I say, after every good stroke, there is a good follow through. After every good kick, after every good serve, after every good swing, after every good putt, after every good throw, there is a good follow through. It’s not an accident that a […]
Sinking Sand or Solid Ground?
I don’t know about you but as for me, closing my eyes to pray or meditate isn’t an option. I feel trapped in a dark place and start scrounging around for light of my own creation or imagining. And that is sure to distract me from my intentions. I need a visual focus, something for […]
The key to 2020 Vision is in View
The key to a 2020 vision for humanity has been designed into how we see.
The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it
Though it may try, no force of darkness can extinguish the Light of Christ.
Our Tower of Babble
We are in a babbling time, even a blabbering time. So much assaults our ears, our minds, our tendencies. There is so much to get our hackles up over, to take sides on, to gossip about and share with our friends. Enough already. This mobile device I have in my pocket has its uses, but […]
Complain to Me, not to Them
We carry so much. Where can we put it down? “Give it to Me and let them be.”
Their Cup is not empty
Dear World, forgive me. In my desire to share what is so important to me, so necessary, so powerful, so helpful, so true, I have neglected to notice this about you: your cup is not empty.* Willing students, perhaps, come with polished, expectant cups. Some with them behind their backs, waiting to see if the […]
Feeling Sheepish?
Sheep and goats. Goats and sheep. That’s all we are. All we’ve ever been. All we’ll ever be. But here’s the rub, which are we? Recently, I have been hearing a lot folks say they are tiring of the battle. Tired of the in-fighting. Tired of the online fighting. Tired of the rock-throwing, vitriol spewing […]
Fit for the Kingdom
What makes us fit? A good fit?Our shape? Size? Color? Language? Nationality?Our behavior? Net worth? Service record?Our church membership? Community service? Volunteer hours?Our education? Employment? Contribution? Is itHow many lives we’ve touched?How many stories we’ve listened to?How many hands we’ve held?How many sacrifices we’ve made?How many gifts we’ve given?What we’ve done? What we’ve left undone? […]