The Message translation of Colossians 3:3-4 has been convicting/encouraging me lately, especially this phrase: “Be content with obscurity.” We have an upside down world and it is easy to roll topsy turvy along with it. But, it’s Sarah Smith of…
Sabbath! It was a gift of rest from the hand of God. Wasn’t it just that simple? I had always “done” Sunday, and loved every minute of going to church and enjoying a restful afternoon. But now, I was devouring…
It’s prep day around here: Saturday. Recently, I’ve began reevaluating our family’s life. What’s working…what’s not. Confession time: Organization is not my gifting. That wrench was missing when I was handed the package. And Sunday morning? Often it is chaos…
A tight face and words that won’t come except spit from gasps of anger. Seven years old and the wii game’s referee intentionally calls bad games he believes, leaving him stomping. Damming up joy. He runs, hits. Tears stream from…
Two years ago the intercessors @ Holy Trinity Anglican started dreaming: a prayer clinic downtown where people could detour off sidewalks into the Presence of Jesus. We began driving for inner healing training and planting foundation prayers walking around our 5,000 pop.…
Fridays at a thirst for God we focus on Sabbath, carving out space for God, for rest: Spring dances in, high and lifted up, waving scepters of gold. Gilded Day bounds free from the east, rising tentatively above slim, blue…
The Shepherd is Here I shall not lack… And this seems to be key: You are always enough in the present. I am the one who runs ahead into lack, who runs ahead into fear and smacks my head…
It was a night to remember. I was on a personal, sabbath retreat at a cottage by a lake, and it was getting late. Piano music drifted in magical waves through my window. From a chair plumped in pillows, I…
The cavernous airport terminal throbbed with life in the fast lane. Monotonous voices droned from every speaker, and frigid air washed in and out of automatic doors in shivery waves. Caterpillar lines formed at each gate, and cell phones popped…
HERE. He is here. The God of the Universe: All-Wise, All-powerfull, saturated through and through with goodness and love, star-namer, man molder, light flinger, … Healer, Redeemer, Life Breather, Dead Raiser, Wave Calmer, is HERE. The question…