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I write on all sorts of topics such as Celebration & Wonder, Community & Discipleship, Intimacy with Christ, and Redemption & Grace. I share my random thoughts in Miscellaneous Musings.
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Ascribing Motives
A friend was just beginning to vent about a situation in her life, that I knew she had to get off her chest. She had invisible steam pouring out of her ears, and her brow was furrowed. "I know it's because they think..." "Wait!" I interrupted. "Don't ascribe motives"....
Making Coffee Together.
Chuckling, I thanked my husband for pouring the water into the French Press, after I had accomplished all the other steps leading up to it. Making coffee in a French Press happens in stages. I told him if I was ever a widow, I'd be so grieved to have to make coffee...
2 Chronicles 7:14
Most mornings its a battle to get out of bed, because I see things on the horizon that make my knees knock a little. I oscillate between fear and faith, and contend to get my head facing the right direction before I face the day. I know that every fear that rattles...
Wrapping Paper
Last night the power went out. I hope you walked outside. It was brighter outside than it was in my house. I hope you drove through town and marveled. We sure did. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed it. Every day we have a chance to open our hands and receive whatever...
To the Church on the Edge of the Jordan
Dear Church, I keep feeling this overwhelming sense of hopefulness that we are standing on the edge of the Promised Land, spiritually speaking. I keep accidentally opening my Bible to the beginning of Joshua, where the Lord repeatedly tells him to "be strong and...
Sovereign in the Spirit Realm
I've been reading Ephesians a lot lately (I'm assuming a lot of Christians have been, especially the last chapter). In chapter 6 (the grand finale) it tells the Believer to "be strong in the Lord and in the strength o His might. Put on the full armor of God so that...
Jesus Died for Bandits
I used to hitch-hike the country. I smelled like I hadn't bathed in a month, well, because I probably hadn't. Showers aren't easy to come by when your sleeping in ditches and under bridges. But I loved Jesus. And that part really messed with people's heads. We didn't...
Vision #2
Awhile back I posted a vision I'd had, and said I would post more. Yet until now, I haven't done so. For the past week or more I've been feeling that I needed to share this particular one, so here it is. I saw this on 2/27/16. I was reading Chapter 4 in Tozer’s “The...
The Wonder of Tree Bark
I have a confession. I am enraptured with tree bark. I suppose you might be scratching your head, confused as to why I am so wild about tree bark, of all things. It all comes down to wonder... and the majesty of details. Tree bark is kind-of like the finger prints of...
Hindsight is always 2020
Driving down the road, as 2020 was about to make way for the New Year, I began to pray about the ways my vision had been clarified in 2020, because this may have been a hard year, but resistance can be good for the soul. It occurred to me that hindsight is always...
The Preparation of Solitude
I am often struck by the solitude and silence all the characters in the theatrical cast of the original Christmas story endured, in preparation for the Messiah's entrance to the world, and also to the public. Elizabeth, the elderly, barren mother, who would deliver...
The Things Which Are Not Seen
Sitting around the Christmas tree, with our last, remaining kid at home, we swapped passages of Scripture, because that's really what Christmas is really about. Smiles read a couple of parts of Isaiah, the prophet who told us specific details about Jesus hundreds of...