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Sinking In

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (Galatians 3:27 ESV) But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (Romans 13:14...

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The Price of Peace

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. (Psalms 139:23-24 NASB) What is the part of you...

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A Not-so-empty Chair

From “Abba’s Child,” by Brennan Manning:Once I related the story of an old man dying of cancer.  The old man’s daughter had asked the local priest to come and pray with her father.  When the priest...

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Tempted to Fear

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. (Psalms 130:3-4 ESV) I don’t know if that struck you as odd, but it did me....

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The Healing Prayer

Brennan Manning, in his book, “The Furious Longing of God,” tells this story:“I will never forget a retreat experience years ago in the Midwest.  It was a rather large gathering, about seven thousand...

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Pressing On... Backwards?

We walk backwards.  We can’t help it, it’s how we’re made.  When you were growing up, did anyone ever tell you to “Watch where you’re going?”  I heard that all the time.  Now that I teach elementary...

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The Darkened Mirror

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)I’m thankful that this Scripture does not say, “Blessed are the pure in behavior...” because then I’d be lost.  I’d like to be pure in...

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Interference

For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. (Romans 14:23 ESV) Our relationship with God is everything.  God, in fact, IS relationship.  Three ways.  And we were created in His image....

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The Joy of Being

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,...

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Holding Pattern

When my grand daughter, 1 ½, wants to be held, she comes up,  locks her eyes on my face, stretches her arms as high as she can, rocks up on her toes, and cries out in a voice that is at once insistent,...

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