There’s an ancient path — one worn into the ground over thousands of years, easy to trust because so many have walked it before you. I was watching a program on TV about elephants. The Elephant Queen. It tells the journey of a family of elephants in the African savannah, […]
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To read the Bible, it can feel overwhelming. What do I do? I want to read the Bible and grow, but where do I start? I was raised in a church tradition that highly valued reading the Bible. People were encouraged to read their Bible every day, go to Bible […]
Life can have many traumatic events, but is God concerned about your happiness? Yes, and there is a quest happening. I’ve been doing a sailing course over the last month. Learning how a sailboat worked. I knew the physics, but I wanted to feel what it was like to be […]
What does perfect narcissism look like? We can see it in the evil of Satan. Quick answer: Satan displays all eleven traits of a perfect narcissist — from Isaiah 14’s boast “I will make myself like the Most High” to Luke 4’s temptation of Jesus with worldly glory and worship. […]
There is a fear in all of us. It’s been there seemingly forever. The Psalmist sings ‘Search me, Know my Anxious Thoughts.’ Can God be that good? I was watching a TV program about border control in the U.S.A. The officers had a tip that someone coming through immigration was […]
Your pain is legitimate, and second-place prayers reveal the need, but first-place prayers must always come first, so we pray a simple prayer. Simple sounds easy. Requiring little effort. First place. It’s where we put the best, second-place things go behind first-place things. There is an order—first place, then […]
We want God to answer our prayer our way, but there is a larger story going on, so we wait to see the way God answers prayer. Most weekends, when my children were young, I made buns for lunch. First, I would make the bread dough in a breadmaker, then […]
Our thoughts can take us to both the best and worst of places, but we can create new thinking pathways. It will require a plan to rope bridge the synapse gap. It was a small rope bridge, and it had only three wires. One wire where you could place your […]
Comparisonitis kills joy. Comparing yourself to others robs you. Instead, explore who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. I’m just recovering from a severe case of comparisonitis. I think I caught the most recent dose from the Internet, but this disease has […]
If you put your nose to the grindstone rough, And keep it down there long enough, You will soon conclude that there are no such things, As a brook that babbles or a bird that sings. These three things will your world compose: Just you, the stone, And your ground-down […]