The torrent of scalding anger had subsided, but hurt still stung my heart and rashly spoken words still hung in the air. We had fought the night before. Yes, I should have handled it better -- but I was tired, fed up and didn't care...
. The actuality of God's independent splendor shines with or without our acknowledgement. His capacity to fulfill all that He wants to be and do for us remains an eternal verity, untouched by our oblivion of it. The quiet thunder of His voice sounds, even if we...
Last week we explored the staggering possibility that we can hinder what God wants to do and be for us from coming-to-be in our life. This week we will learn how the soil of our soul can keep us from hearing the message God wants-us-to-hear. Moses vigorously...
Fury, hurt and disappointment coursed through me like a hot flood as my husband left without opening my gift. I couldn’t believe how easily he aborted what I had so carefully planned. But all too soon I would see the innumerable gifts God had prepared...
Nothing softens the heart like a baby’s eyes first fastening on your face. But a deep, core-to-core relationship with that tiny human being only becomes possible with its maturity. In the same way, our spiritual birth makes us alive to God; He comes into view....
With three visiting grandchildren I rarely get to see, savoring a week with our daughter I am rarely able to embrace, I’ve asked my friend, Shella, to craft this week’s posting. She recognizes when God is speaking to her as clearly as anyone I have...
There are some things that cannot be forced into being. Belief, respect, trust and love are four of them. Our chance to authentically experience these is lost, the moment anyone tries to force them. Guilt, shame, fear and intimidation can never produce what is real,...
We do not recognize the extent to which laws at work in us and around us are determining whether we will recognize God’s activity in our life. Very often we fail to experience Him, even though we want to, because our flawed preconceptions have shut...
A battle is being fought over us, to determine what we are going to be. For we are no longer what we once were, and “it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.” [1] Long ago, the light of knowing God flowed in man,...
When I think of Scripture, I do not equate it with the Bible -- but with the mind of God, the eternal words of God, the ethereal message from another domain coming to man -- not originating here with men, but there with God. Over a...