The key to 2020 Vision is in View
The key to a 2020 vision for humanity has been designed into how we see.
Created Not Constructed
Read Psalm 139: 1-18. Consider: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. G.K. Chesterton wrote, “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed […]
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 […]
Dialogue with the World: today you have some explaining to do
World, you have some explaining to do! This question needs an answer and I’m done waiting. Why do bad things happen to good people?To strengthen them, World replies. But a person who is dear to me is now very weak.Ah, but you are only looking at what you can see. And you can see more?Not […]
Does stillness feel like a straight jacket to you, too?
When people find out I’ve published a faith-based title, they often ask, Do you meditate? “I pray,” I tell them. This is usually met with an uncomfortable silence or, “Oh.” Then crickets. People, it seems, aren’t quite sure what to do with prayer. Meditation is the in thing. It’s so much more … accepted, inoffensive, […]
The Art of the Jump Shot: what’s God got to do with it?
We kinesthetics do a lot by feel. We move in the space to “see” how big it is. We step outside to test whether we need a jacket today. When asked how long the table is, we spread our arms to demonstrate the size. How heavy is it? Oh, about like picking up _______ (something […]
Why tone?
Muscle tone: the resting tension in a muscle. It’s not just about buff, cut, or 6-pack abs. Tone comes from effort, preparing muscles so we are ready to respond without delay.
A Physical Education
Active living isn’t just good for us; it’s God for us. A single daily dose and we become participants in our own re-creation!
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 […]