What is a Kinesthetic Christian, please?
How do you describe who you are? What you do…okay. Where you came from, where you live, what you produce, who’s in your family…all okay. But who you are gets to the root of things. It forces you to assess the why and the how and to reflect on what makes you tick and what […]
Let there be light
There is something about light in the darkness. Even with my eyes closed I can still see it. The dancing and moving and flickering and playing of…what is it that dances and moves in the periphery of my vision? I do not see it with my eyes, yet I know that it’s there. It’s teasing […]
Let it be
The icy rain came and covered all of creation with a shimmering sheet. Heavy under its weight it bent and then dripped and then froze, God’s great ice-o-metrics. Fragile. Frozen. Frosted. The snow came and blanketed the icy stillness with layer upon layer of beauty. Limbs bent lower and lower. I can ease their suffering and […]
Between Hope and Peace, watch out
Instead of an Advent wreath, I have an Advent box this year, courtesy of some very clever folks at my church who assembled the supplies and invited me to come make one. I wasn’t so sure about “branching out” (pardon the pun), but it’s growing on me (again). There’s an order to my candles. No […]
Do our brains grow toward what we choose?
Our brains our changing. At least mine is. It has to, in order to keep up with the constant influx of information, sensory input, and data. To analyze it properly and make the right decision. I read and process information differently. My brain is adapting, as a survival strategy. I’m not sure what that means, […]
What if order is essential and distraction denies?
My mind works differently nowadays and I think it’s technology’s fault. I don’t think I’m alone. Everybody’s doing it. Flitting from one screen to the next, one conversation to the next, one opportunity to the next. All without taking a breath. And we have to, right? I mean how otherwise could we Black Friday shop […]
Breathtaking, briefly and beyond
People with a great mind are a dime a dozen. People with a great heart are few. People who use their strength in service to a great mind with great heart…priceless. I am grateful for these people. They are humble and unassuming. Like the tiny maple saplings we bought for a dollar two decades ago […]
Are there layers to listening?
Folks today listen fast. We have to. We have information coming at us from all directions at rapid fire pace. Young people are unfazed by this. They’ve grown up with it and seem to have perfected the technique. The young woman at the register was completely amazing. I approached her to exchange a pair of […]
Push the button!
What if God has made everything possible: laid out every step, anticipated every possibility, shaped every turn, and all that’s left is to push the activation button? So often I get caught circling a decision. Oh, I’m very aware of something that is demanding action. Perhaps it keeps prompting me, poking me with its warning […]
failing my way to success
Yesterday, I received notification that the proposal for my book had been rejected. Nope. Not gonna happen. Not now. Not by that publisher. I had inquired earlier in the day, dredging up my courage to ask, even if the news was not good news. The response came: I checked with the editor and he was […]