One of more than a few “aha” moments that have converged for me is this: I am not a “social justice warrior”. That is the work of people with causes/issues for which to battle. I am an advocate whose task is to battle for a particular person...
I will never again blow my horn at someone ahead of me who fails to jack-rabbit-start at a green light! ( I’ve never been real quick to do so as it seems a good way to get shot by someone with road rage in our world today.) I was on my way to a yoga class, in...
From 4/19/2014 “The people whom I have friended on facebook are part of my “community”. They are, to a large degree, people I engage with and who hold me to living accountably for my walk with Christ…..not perfectly, as none of us does...
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;...
From 4:19/2015…. “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber in their beds, he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction.” Job 33:15-16 The context for this scripture is that God warns us through...
4/16/16 God makes use of everything….everything that happens to us can become a springboard that God will use. As I have shared with students and others through the years, however, sometimes God uses it as a good example…Other times he uses it as a...
Prayer during Communion……another tradition. For a number of years now, since some Holy Communion services at Blue Lake Campground, it has been my practice to pray as I sit during the communion service after taking communion and as others go forward to...
From 4/16/2017: I had phoned in my message title and scripture for today’s sermon to the voicemail of the worship leader. He called me back the next day to verify what he’d taken off the voicemail. He sounded confused by my choice! Luke 1:1-3….After...
Heard ….”The more broken the vessel, the more the light shines forth!” That is certainly true of some of the people I have known……..lives shattered, and then restored by God, with the capacity to show forth the light that lives within!...
From the Zaccheaus Option by Scott Jones: “I feel that my chief purpose is to be an understanding neighbor for those who find it impossible to join the exultant crowds beneath the unfurled flags of whatever color, for those who keep their distance…I like...
