Into the Depths
Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’. -Andy, The Shawshank Redemption I want to write. I want to illustrate. I want to tell stories and relate them to this journey of walking with God. I want to tell the...
View ArticleHungry for the Really Real
I’m feeling today especially hungry and worn out. I plow through so many competing thoughts in any given day. They’re not “bad” or necessarily “lustful” or anything like that, just competing, rival...
View ArticleRestored Deeply
Thinking on the awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping splendor and glory of the Parthenon in Athens as it stood tall and proud centuries ago, the chapels in Rome at the height of the Empire – their ceilings...
View ArticleEarly Will I Seek You
If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice,I’ll go to sleep each night trusting in you. -Psalm 143:8, The Message How we need this. How desperately we must awaken each day into the...
View ArticleHis Handiwork
I will never forget the day my wife told me that the same God who carved out the Grand Canyon, who spills onto the canvas of the sky the beauty of the sunset, unique and gorgeous every evening, who...
View ArticleOne Good Memory
And even if only one good memory remains with us in our hearts, that alone may serve some day for our salvation. -Alyosha, The Brothers Karamazov I love this line. As the “hero” of the story, Aloysha...
View ArticleAll-Consuming
It’s a busy season. Family to visit. Gifts to exchange. Shopping to do. I’m struck by the way so much of our culture has been able to recognize the deep need in the human soul and sell it, promising...
View ArticleComing to a Standstill
The past 36 hours have brought another major ice storm in the midwest, and half the metropolis area where my wife and I live has been without electricity. Trees are down, roads are iced and blocked. We...
View ArticleI Remember Your Name
Sometimes I wake, and lo, I have forgot And drifted out upon an ebbing sea! My soul was at rest now resteth not, For I am with myself and not with thee; Truth seems a blind moon in a glaring morn,...
View ArticleThe God Who Speaks
Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the ways that God has been speaking to her lately. She said that she used to hear people talk about “God told me this” or “God told me that”...
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