We all worship something. It’s how we were made. Worship is a spiritual act, no doubt, although it’s made manifest in how we live our lives, so it’s often mis-perceived as something else. Some are more obvious than others (drug addiction, for example), but food addiction is the same hurting spirit made manifest in a […]
Could it be?
Believers are consistently called to exercise gratitude. We are made in the Likeness of Christ and therefore God. Does this mean that Jesus could be grateful when we see Him? When we desire to be in relationship with Him? When we return His infinite love the very best way these human vessels know how? When […]
No fellowship with darkness
We are light, because Jesus is light. We are made in His image and that of our Father. “You are the light of the world.” -Matthew 5:14 Christ literally says so. We are light and love because Jesus paid every price necessary to bring us back into the Holy Presence of our Father. His sacrifice […]
Relief
I sit here day’s end, crawling into bed and removing my socks for a hopefully restful slumber. It’s March in Northern Michigan. The weather can’t decide what it wants to do, and my well-cared for foot even so told me it would appreciate a good scratching. I’d only moments before been thanking Jesus for allowing me […]
“We”
Remember the time you first fell in love? The second? Recall, you couldn’t wait to be around that person, in this instance we’ll call that person him. Being in his presence and missing him even before he left, you’d count the minutes or days until you got to see him again. You treasured the time […]
Earthly Fathers
“I didn’t raise you to be so judgmental!” Soul crushing words as my dad and I argued theology. I was in my teens. My parents had recently divorced, and I’d been pursuing a far too conservative angle in my efforts to connect with God; to make sense of my young life…in his opinion. But he […]
“Troubles”
“I have told you these things that in me you may have peace. In this life you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world.” -John 16:33 We shouldn’t be surprised when we experience hard things. As Matthew 5:45 reminds us, “rain falls on the just and the unjust”. Whether we know, […]
I receive your rain
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? -Matthew 6:26 Morning walks lately have been a struggle. I could give myself the break, but between the compulsive “get my 10K steps” and […]
Grit in my shoe
When I walk, I pray, and I walk a LOT. When blessed to do it outdoors, I often notice as time progresses, I end up with grit of some sort in my shoes and socks. Typically, it’s a minor irritant, ignored or relieved quickly as I make a quick “finger pass” along the cuff of my socks. This […]
A subtle answer to prayer
I was a little discouraged during yesterday morning’s prayer time. If you know me you know the last couple of years have been the most challenging I can recall, as it has been for so many. It’s not just the soul crushing isolation…it’s knowing who I WAS before covid, and missing that girl terribly. Yesterday […]