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The Courage to be Searched
There are prayers we learn early – familiar ones. Prayers for protection, for provision, for clarity. Prayers that ask God to move around us, to shape circumstances, to smooth the road ahead.
The Right Reality
Jesus is and always will be, The Way, The Truth, and The Life — but when people lose that truth, they imagine a sky falling. If we are breathing, then we still have a chance to…
Details
It’s often been said by many who are older and have walked the paths we are now taking, to never stop learning. Never be satisfied with the little you “hold in your hand” because there is more.
Keep Rowing
God has been consistently tapping on my heart to focus carefully on the places where He is at work, where He’s turning ashes into beauty.
He Knew
It’s our invitation to you to go ahead and soak in the goodness of Emmanuel, God with us. Let’s bring the focus in tight and let our hearts hold the One thing that matters most…
The Way of Jesus
That’s the subtle trap of our cultural moment: we’ve elevated empathy as if it is the final expression of love. But if empathy is the end, it can actually leave people where they are.
What Does God Want for Me?
To be in the will of God is the best place a human being, a child of God, can possibly be. To be in the will of God… is to dwell within the shadow of the Almighty…
What Do I Overlook?
As we venture deeper into this holiday season, so much is thrust in front of us causing desire for more to swell within and weakening our ability to see what we already have.
What Do I Want?
It’s quite remarkable how our humanness is preprogrammed to focus closely on what we need and then graduate to what we want.
The Life HE Gives
To honestly look inside ourselves and try and find the stepping stones from where we are to where we want to be can be a very daunting exercise. More often we can sometimes…
Imitation Game
When pain feels too sharp to bear, when grief sits heavy, when betrayal shatters your trust, when the future fades into fog, it’s only human to reach for something…
Run to the Father
It was years ago. She was the gentlest of ladies but with a powerhouse presence. She had something I knew I needed. She knew I needed it to.
Hidden Currents
Cades Cove was our Canon and while the rivers didn’t flow with milk and honey, this promised land of ours held creeks with perfect skipping stones and salamanders for catching.
Stand in Truth or Fall Without It
There was some smoke, and a few sparks, as the wheels locked and the train came to a halt, but stop it did, and I went back to where I was suppose to be.
Even When...
My mother can tell you exactly where she was when John F. Kennedy was killed. Most every Americans I know can tell you where they were when the planes flew into the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Held on the High Road
There’s a reason the Blue Ridge Parkway is often called “America’s Favorite Drive.” For me, it’s more than just a stretch of road - it’s a place where the presence of God feels thick in the air.
The Tug of War
So with my heart distracted in good ways, my mind and soul are able to focus on what is true, right and lovely — my Creator, my Savior, my Lord.
Remember The Garden
If I pay close attention, God allows refinement to come in many ways and He will not allow me to ever be perfect. I have to adapt and overcome… and lay my preferences down.
More Than Any Myth
His name is easy to remember since we bipedal people have two body-parts that carry his name. If we have two legs, two ankles and two feet, we also have two Achilles tendons.
Dwell in the Shelter of the Most High,Rest in the Shadow of the Almighty
Dwelling in Your shelter, resting in Your shadow. Is it real? Is it possible? Or are those just words printed on ancient pages spoken long ago by a clever king?