Have I mentioned lately how faithful and incredibly awesome God is? Even in the little things? You know… little things like the 1000 gifts that take too much time to keep counting because they just keep coming and coming and coming faster than I can stop and write them down. (Though never too fast to …
How is it that a month can be both wonderful and difficult? These past four weeks seem like that, to me. On one hand, they’ve been rough. I haven’t received much revelation, and to me, that alone makes life feel rough. Yet there have been so many wonderful moments, and so many blessings, and so …
It’s hard to get away from the knowledge of so much devastation on the other side of the world. It’s hard to know that someone else’s map now looks like something manufactured by Hollywood.I think, perhaps, that the world is a bit more in shock than usual. This is far from the first time we’ve …
I’ve been thinking more about this God we serve…and how often we want things that don’t really make much sense. Specifically, I’m thinking about God’s omniscience and the common complaint, “I don’t understand why God would allow ______.” Now… if we’re honestly asking if God will please show us why, and we’re willing to hear …
I’m living through some humbling revelations right now. Revelations that opened a door into more ugliness that exists inside my heart, but which lead to hope. Let me back up. This past weekend, my father, sister, and three brothers all came to crowd into my house and fill it with suitcases and stories and laptops …
I’m half-way to counting 1000 gifts! The 11 that today’s Multitude Monday brings me are: 490. That the rest of my 10 Compassion kids got sponsors 491. The gorgeous colors on the tree across the street 492. Finally getting to know our neighbors, and 493. Discovering that they have girls the same ages as ours …
Yesterday was Compassion Sunday, which I presented (hosted? shared?) at my little church. I want to do a mirror of it here as Compassion Monday (even if I am posting this in the last few minutes of the day). My friend/pastor’s wife and I sang “The Power of Your Name” yesterday, and it’s really amazing …
The concept of living a life poured out has been stirring in my spirit quite a bit lately. What does it mean? Are we really called to do it? Is it…fun? First, I’d like to say that this phrase–“a life poured out”–isn’t an official something that somebody told me. I’m sure it’s been used before, …
There is a question that I have asked God many times in my life. It is, quite simply, Why am I so blessed? I look at the world around me and those living in it, and I know that I have been blessed abundantly in ways too numerous to count…in all the ways that matter…in …
Yesterday, my pastor said something in the middle of the message that caught me. It’s been churning in my heart ever since, as a picture…a demonstration…that I knew, but that is now being revealed to me in a way that is even more real. Here is a map of me in this world. A different …