Ecclesiastes 11:9 “Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. ……… YET….know that God will bring you to...
Lesson in immersion…. Some are armchair viewers… they watch iMax images and, for a moment, see and experience through others’ eyes the beauty of new adventures captured by people they haven’t known. They seek information out of curiosity....
God has been dealing with me about the FULLNESS of Christ being able to dwell in us for some time…. “that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.”...
Zen spin…… ( From 12/6/20) “The term is shortened from mushin no shin (無心の心), (arising from the Chinese Chan School of Buddhism) of a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind and is also referred to as the state of “no-mindness”. That is,...
Freedom……. Yesterday I spent time reviewing a Rokeach Value Survey with a young lady. She arranged its 18 terminal values and 18 instrumental values in prioritized order and we set about exploring what her choices revealed about her understanding of...
Psalm 27:13 New American Standard Bible “I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” Hope that life here on earth will be better as God’s will is worked toward completion provides...
Deep or wide…… I have transported glass enough over the years to know first hand that it should be borne in a vertical position, resting upright on its thin edge and braced against shifting rather than spread out lying down flat. As safe as that horizontal...
satan always blinds your mind to the facts and consequences of your circumstances AT THE MOMENT….. Rev. Charles Stanley (From a January 13, 2019 sermon on the prodigal son) living in the moment….. the next step after such a life will always be downward....
From Diane Langberg, PhD “Our response to another’s vulnerability tells about us and only us. What comes “out of us” in the face of vulnerability was there all the time. The vulnerability of the other has merely exposed the truth about ourselves.” If...
From my reflections on 1/15/2017: “Few things are as satisfying as coming to the end of a day and having the sense that it has been a rare day in which life has been lived well. One of the joys of growing older is that, if one is living with intentionality to...
