Year: 2021

Imagine a runner who comes to the track on race day wearing a backpack full of stones. He's not training, this is race day. Each stone is a need in this runner's life. Needs for money, food, shelter, and clothing. Real needs. Practical needs. He's here to run the race but wonders how he will actually do it with so much weight on his shoulders. A coach stands on the sidelines and knows there is...
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All my life I've felt a hunger for that which is authentic and/or real. The hunger began after graduating college in 1996 and once again surfaced after a negative church experience ending in 2007 or thereabouts. A church I attended up to 2007 fell prey to a deceiving lead pastor and what, by all legal definition, could be called spiritual abuse. Raw and shaken by this abuse I stepped away from...
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Matthew 6. A chapter that starts with instructions on being quiet, unseen and unobtrusive in your acts of good and ends with a simple and powerful verse that opened up an entire new reality of what it means to be in a very real and tangible relationship with God. The verse is well known. Popular even. Scripture, to me, is like a toolbox full of tools we use to creatively shape our lives in...
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“Even if the mountains were to crumbleand the hills disappear,my heart of steadfast, faithful lovewill never leave you,and my covenant of peace with you will never be shaken,”says Yahweh,whose love and compassion will never give up on you.Isaiah 54:8-10 Four words/phrases from verse 10 stood out to me today…mountains, hills, covenant of peace and compassion.  A Mother's Heart The he...
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Did you feel the shift that happened this year? Try to weed through all of the clutter and distractions. Step back from it all and ask yourself the question the prophets of old would ask, "what do you see?" The ripple effects of the pandemic are the first thing that come to mind. The quarantines imposed a separation of church leaders from their members and church members from their leaders...
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