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...
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...