It is what is below the surface that sinks the ship. An iceberg can represent our leadership. The 10% above the water is our skill. The 90% below the water is our character. It is […]
Category: Relationships
The last two years have been so very hard. Don’t Give Up!
I’ve shared something similar before, but in light of the last two years, I wanted to share again to “Hang in there!” Life is hard, but God is good! Theodore Roosevelt said, “It is not […]
Living in the Pain of the Gap
Awhile back, in a message, Brian spoke about “living in the pain of the gap”. This referred to the Kingdom of God where we live in the “already and the not yet”. God’s Kingdom is […]
Real Time and Clock Time
Time sometimes needs to be converted. There is Chronis, mere chronological time, and there is Kairos, a New Testament Greek word having to do with opportunity, with moments that seem ripe for their intended purposes. […]
Questions for Contemplation
I have found questions help me think through most matters and often a variety of options. Questions can be a great deal of help between the time we see an opportunity or problem, and the […]
Joy
This morning I was thinking about joy. The joy of a new day, a new sunrise. The joy of a kind word and a smile on a hard day from a stranger. The joy my […]
It’s Time!
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: I think it is time. Time to jump back into church life and community. Time to serve. Time […]
Pruning
I was reading Henri Nouwen the other day about pruning. Pruning means cutting, reshaping, removing what has diminished vitality in our lives. Nouwen said that grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life’s hard and […]
An Excellent podcast
I wanted to take the opportunity to share a podcast I’ve started listening to lately. It is called Good Faith and is hosted by David French and Curtis Chang. I have found them to take […]
What goes in, eventually comes out.
How Are you on the inside? I often do a prayer practice called the Examen. You can find various versions online. I recently saw a short one which caught my eye. It simply said this: […]