Feeling worse before better? Discover the ancient path of down before up. I once saw this very funny cartoon. The first image showed a nice ‘up and to the right’ graph displaying how we think life should work. Progress, easy, smooth, success and without any struggle or challenge. The next […]
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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, […]
It’s so easy to be caught up in doing. We measure ourselves by our output or lack of it. We so easily judge others by what they do—how much they do and the effectiveness of what they do. We feel “so guilty” when we don’t live up to expectations: God’s, […]
Stuck in the quicksand of estrangement? Discover how one mother moved from the agony of ambiguous grief to a miraculous relationship renewal. This is a guest post by Peggy Phillips who wrote Coping with Ambiguous Loss by Estrangement After my son went no contact, the quicksand of estrangement engulfed every part […]
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 […]
A judgment has been made, and you’ve been put in a box. Possibly you have built this box yourself? That box needs exploding from the inside out. It felt like they had been judged. A rulebook had been passed over them. Measurements had been taken. From the very few questions […]
I like known ways. Reliable pathways. But God often wants to show us a pathway no one knew was there! Ready to be surprised? Something had to change because it felt like I had been walking the same pathway in a perpetual rutted circle. Around and around, digging a deeper […]
Where I focus, I will go. What would happen if I chose to sit in God’s joy of me? Perhaps some of the old would be washed away. It was a deep approval. The smile, the welcome, the love. The banner was stretched out wide, saying, ‘This is home’. […]
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 […]
Change is most fragile at the very beginning. If we can catch the little foxes that spoil the vine, the subtle saboteurs that kill new growth, the blossom has a chance to become a harvest. In this post: Why new change is so vulnerable The little foxes that spoil the […]