On Sunday, I found myself up in the attic with my daughter of 27 years.  She was gathering items for her new home as wife and mother to our sweet Adelaide Louise.  As we began to go through boxes, she found her old middle school journals. We laughed as she talked about crushes, SOLS, teachers,…

Yesterday I cleaned my house.  While cleaning, I listened to Elevation Church and watched The Gospel of John on Netflix.  I would either listen without the visualizations, or stop and watch if the passage grabbed my attention.  I played the scene in John where Jesus goes to the well and meets up with a Samaritan…

Today is the beginning of Lent. Last night during our time of fellowship and family we discussed the power and control of negativity and a critical spirit. From the discussion, I awoke with a passion to make a paradigm shift from death to life during this season of Lent.  Habits are broken with consistent and…

There is this place I call “miracle space”.  It’s the space in which God’s glory is revealed in the colors of our world, the smells, shapes, sounds, contours, and textures all round us. It’s the space not found looking at the rose, but the gazing of the symmetrical layers of the rose petals, the vibrant color,…

It’s Christmas Eve and all the shopping is done. The stores are closing early, and you can’t express order at this point.  Then it comes, that gnawing feeling of “Did I do enough?” If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father…

When I was around 12 years old, I fell in love with the music and artist Olivia Newton John.  I had all her albums, and I knew, not only the songs that hit the charts, but also the obscure songs no one really listened to.  One of the songs I enjoyed singing was “Never Enough”…

Belonging. The simplest of clubs have a set of qualifications or bylaws in which you follow to belong. If you don’t have the qualifications then you don’t belong. Most of our lives we either belong, or feel out-of-place–“misfits”. We don’t fit the mold or expectations.  In some cases, we are okay with the lack of…