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  • Are we there yet?

    “Are we there yet?”   Little voices coming from the back seat of the car, often when we were just an hour into the ride, asked that question. My children could not understand that 500 miles meant a 10 hour long… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about those “Oh, Jesus!” prayers

    I sighed heavily, my prayer just 2 words, “Oh, Jesus!” I know, somehow deep inside that the world is not as the Creator intended it to be. It’s not all grim! I enjoyed a sweet afternoon chatting with friends, joyful… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about a Long Obedience

    “It was a hard day,” she wrote to me last night without any explanation, but I did not really need any. It was a hard one for me, too.  The unrelenting bad news, the focus now shifting from sickness and… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about the Big Three

    Evidence of the building stress in our nation is cropping up everywhere. Mental health providers report sharply increasing numbers of calls to help hotlines. A few of us are going to extremes shown in things like the shooting of a… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about being KNOWN TO GOD

    Do you ever feel invisible? These days, given our social distancing rules, that can be even more of a struggle for some. Develop a chronic or disabling illness and many people will steer clear of you. Have a struggle with… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about ENCOURAGING PEOPLE

    November, 1987 was a low point in life, so much that I was planning to leave my calling to ministry. In a hotel coffee shop, an older minister took note of my struggle. He poured love into my heart, affirming… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about being KEPT SAFE

    The Spirit invites us to secure rest by painting multiple word pictures for us in Psalm 91. “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about COPING

    There is no question that Americans are collectively stressed to the max. We have never lived through anything like this COVID19 experience. The media bombards us with statistics and stories that have magnified fear to astonishing levels. Throw in 20,000,000… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about Lessons Learned

    Yesterday I was wishing I could talk to my grandparents, all of whom were born around the dawn of the 20th century. I would love to ask them about how they lived in times of awful hardship. They were part… Continue reading

  • Let’s talk about EXTERNAL REFERENCES

    At 16, I decided to obtain my pilot’s license.  The lessons I liked least were those spent ‘under the hood.’  The flight instructor gave me a strange looking plastic device that went on my head like a  cap with an… Continue reading