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Guardrails for the Christian Life

Early on, the life of faith looks beautiful in the distance, but very confining up close. So many rules. So many prohibitions. So many boundaries. But the guardrails prevent us from experiencing the consequences of the natural laws during our early learning. But our persistence pays off. Maturity is unconcerned with guardrails, only the beauty […]

The Lake and I played today

The Lake and I played today. We played peek-a-boo. We played hide and seek. We played with crayons, mostly orange.   We played red light, green light.   We played follow the leader. Which started me singing. Step by step, you lead me. I will follow you all of my days. So touched, was I […]

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 […]

Run the lake but walk the bridges

I’ve just returned from time away at a place that is full of beauty. I’ve been there before, but it was not full of last year’s beauty. It was newly lovely. In fact, daily lovely. Each day, it was filled with a new beautiful. A new personality. It felt effortless to run around this lake. […]

Motion activated

How can you prepare to be surprised by God? My way, truthfully, is to pack every possible option. To bring every book I might need, every piece of equipment I might demonstrate, and more. I prepare and work out the details, sketching and outlining and scratching in more notes in the margin. I prepare out […]

A Working Retreat?

Oxymorons…you gotta love them. Verbally puzzling expressions that stop and make you think, because they just don’t go together. Today, I am headed 8 hours south into the mountains of North Carolina to a retreat center at Lake Junaluska. There may be more beautiful and restful places than this, but I don’t know them. Alas, […]

Stretch to Strengthen

No one really wants to be stretched. Especially, not when it goes beyond what feels comfortable. There’s a certain out of control feeling when someone is pulling me and I don’t have any say-so in the how-far-they-go-until-they-stop. If you have ever suffered an injury or undergone surgery and then rehabbed in physical therapy, you know […]

Strengthened in Prayer: multi-tasking is Biblical

First Thessalonians (5:17) says it clearly: “Pray continually.” I assume that means 24-7, 365. So, if I understand that correctly, that means my life should be one continuous prayer. Praising. Confessing. Thanking. Asking. But, wait, God wants me to be going about His business here on earth, too. So, if God expects me to pray without […]