On a long prayerful walk down the beach under a foreboding sky, the Lord impressed me that we were to sell our Florida home. My heart constricted. Bill and I adored our retreat there, but I "saw" a picture of the sales contract in my...
Those of us who have come out of Wicca, the occult and New Age spirituality carry a burden that most do not have to bear. Our burden is that we know how "real" our experiences were, how "natural" it felt as we thought we were hearing...
Few things bring humbler wonder, than to realize that God is piecing together a message for me . . . It is inconceivable that the God who created quasars and constellations should bend so low as to orchestrate circumstances to speak to us, but the evidence over...
Submission to God creates an atmosphere in which it is easy to hear and know God. When I find that I have lost the thread of His leading, the way back is always to locate that aspect of authority, which He has placed over me,...
Locked away in silent darkness where she neither saw nor heard anything, the little girl felt her way through a world in which she constantly stumbled, having no idea of the reality that lay beyond her comprehension. She is a picture of each of us,...
Drawn by God, he stepped out of his tent into the night, lifting his craggy face to behold the stars. From flickering points vast reaches away, the light culminated its long journey to record itself upon the old man's eye. And He took him outside and...
Every spiritual reality has its analogy in the physical domain. What we experience physically often parallels what we're grappling with in the unseen, spiritual domain, which we inhabit as well. * * * In the 1940s the evolution of jet propulsion brought flight at the speed of...
Strength for the Journey Brent and Susan's wedding reception in the San Juan Islands drew friends and family from all over the United States. As the music rose on salted air their guests mingled. But I had eyes for only one. Where was she? Riddled with cancer,...
On our own, we cannot understand what God is saying. Most of us fail to recognize that something supernatural is taking place when we understand what God is saying to us. We falsely assume it is a natural extension of our own thinking process, when...
The cavalier assumption, "If there is something God wants me to hear, I will hear it," masquerades as faith -- but it is not faith -- it is ignorance of how hearing God works. God's word will come to us, no matter where we are; but for...