October Invitation: Read the Psalms with Me! Note Great Verbs!
Let’s read the book of Psalms this month. If we read 5 Psalms a day, we will finish the book. It’s such a joyful practice! You can invite your whole family to read, and at the dinner table, ask which parts stood out. You’ll find that God’s word is living and active and applies uniquely […]
A Life Far Exceeding Your Ability
Ash and I had a great conversation this morning about life, and he mentioned a recent talk with God where he wondered how he would ever continuing in ministry without me. While it was a morbid thought of losing a wife, what happened next was profound. Ash reasoned with God how he would just have […]
The Kindness
This morning while reading Psalm 145, I took note of how the word “kind” repeats. We’re told how God is “kind in all his works” two times. I like thinking of the kindness of God. It’s such a warm word. When I think of God as kind, I think of His generous, patient, attentive, interested, […]
It’s Never the Work Itself
Today I remember what my wise student told me about stress. She said, “The work is not stressful. Thinking about starting the work is stressful. Just get started.” It’s true. The work is rarely stressful. It’s the thinking about the work that causes stress. I’ve been worried about a project for nearly a month. I […]
God is Not Confused
I love to remember that God is not confused. When I feel confused, unsure, or unable to know how to think properly about something, I think about how God is “greater than our hearts, and he knows everything” (1 John 3:20). I also remember David’s prayer in Psalm 139 for God to search him and […]
Best Case Scenario
I meet with a new friend who decided to change her mindset in life. Instead of always imagining the worst case scenario and letting her mind go down the dark trails of what if this or that, she now thinks things like this: What if something amazing happens? What if all my dreams come true? […]
A Turtle in the Woods
I just found an Eastern Box Turtle in the Pennsylvania woods. What a wonderful creature!
Taking the High Ground
I’m standing on Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg. I’m here for a conference with Cru. On the ridge, you have the advantage of visibility. You even have gravity on your side. I look down across the battlefield as the sun begins to set. Our instructor tells us that the Battle of Gettysburg was won by taking […]
Roll With It
You know the expression to “just roll with it”? I love the image of being the kind of person who just “rolls” with whatever happens. I picture myself as a cozy ball just rolling down the hill, enjoying the landscape and the breeze. The opposite of rolling feel like braking. You’re stiff and unmoving. You’re […]
Something to Remember from the Wizard of Oz
Last night, I popped into a backyard Bible study group in town who will study Included in Christ. As we talked about living in the truth and not letting Satan attack us with lies, we remembered the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Glinda laughs in the face of the Wicked Witch who threatens her. […]