Letter to a newly minted five-year-old
I want you to understand where that light comes from and what we are supposed to do with it and where it should go. Light comes from God…
Category: relationships
leadership is about encouraging one another!
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at
The Lord’s Prayer – for Father’s Day
We’re the fathers who aren’t in heaven; harassed is our name. Our kids won’t come, our will’s not done, not on earth nor in heaven
“Go, Dog. Go,” San Francisco whales, and things that make us smile
Smiling. All day long. We don’t have to have a room full of people rolling in the aisles, we just have to love life and love the people we’re on this journey with.
There are two parts to free will. Freedom from, and freedom for. In making the choice to follow Jesus I am claiming both
the choice to follow Jesus and to be guided by the Spirit is actually a step into freedom. When the Spirit urges us to love and serve one another the result is satisfaction, happiness, fulfillment, and freedom. Not just that we are freed from the bondage of sin but free to embrace the nature we were designed to enjoy.
“Random photos that make me smile” day!
Today’s random photos come from Uzbekistan, Dunn, Florida, Richmond, and Wake Forest. What they all have in common is that they make me smile.
66 years of (Amazing) Grace and (King) David
“Grace” is more than my mother’s name, and “David” really is “a man after God’s own heart.”
our “right to” anything is a house built on sand if we skip the moral foundation
If your solution is to tightly regulate every move we make and every breath we take, then I’ll take my chances with the guns. But don’t you dare insist on your “right to”anything without first dealing with your responsibility to follow God’s law.
Cultivating a Grateful Heart
Our own rightness is an extension of God’s goodness. We do not act independent of God, but we act – when we are at our best – in partnership.
The aroma of blessing: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and more…
The blessings, of course, are simply those things that remind me of how grateful I am. And sometimes it takes little more than the aroma of English Thyme when I’m sitting on the deck with a cup of tea and a curious camera….
