Is My Courage Waiting to Hear Me Say Go?
Take heart. Drum up your courage. Be bold. Throw caution to the wind. Go for it. When action is required, I don’t want to be found wanting. Worse, I don’t want to be thought cowardly. I want to be one who summons the courage necessary. What if my “wrestling is not so much to summon courage but to […]
Ask Which Way but then Go
‘Limited Sight Distance’ – this is the sign that greeted me as I crested the hill leaving my Dad’s house en route to visit my friend Kyle at the Shepherd Spinal Center 30 minutes away. She would only be there another week before she was discharged to begin the next phase of her rehab – […]
You have not arrived but you’re getting there
Recently, I drove to my Dad’s house just north of Atlanta. The roads are constantly under construction there so I activated my navigation system to assist me along the way. As I approached his subdivision the voice became more frequent and more insistent. It seemed to be building up to a big finish. In .3 miles turn […]
Putting it Into Practice
Are you one of those people who sits and listens in prayer? Do you hear God speaking? Does He give you a final answer? I don’t know fully what God is saying to me until I go with it. Well, let me correct that, I don’t know it fully but moving seems to facilitate the […]
What is the Pace of Perfect?
Today I will work at God’s pace. What is the pace of perfect? I distinguish this from “perfect pace.” Perfect pace implies that there is one pace we all seek to achieve. But the pace of perfect seems to me to be individual – in my day, my circumstance, my capability, my moment. It may […]
Proprioception: Could it be God-GPS?
Proprioceptors: these are small sensory organs nestled among the fibers of tendons in joints. They respond to compression from various angles and report to the brain command center what position a particular body part is in and how fast it is moving. This is key because the brain command center uses this info to predict […]
Don’t Just Stand There, Move
The anatomy and physiology book from which I used to teach college students states, “Biologists have found that all living things share certain basic characteristics, including the following (in this order): responsiveness, growth and differentiation, reproduction, movement (internal or external), metabolism and excretion. By internal movement, they mean the movement of things inside the organism. By […]
If Forward Motion is Life, Does Speed Kill?
It’s a whole lot easier to guide something that’s already moving than to overcome the inertia of a thing standing still. I guess the challenge is to set sail, all the while with whetted finger hoisted into the air ready to sense changes in the winds. To be seeking and searching for guidance. I am […]