I awaken early each day. The first thing I do is listen to SDT. Then I reflect on the text and pray. I have been so filled with the Word through the reflected and refracted glory of God in this Elijah story through the eyes and voice of JD Walt, some morning I...
Heard: “Emotions don’t make you any less holy; they make you more human.” We use emotions to cry out for help, just like Peter, who cried out to Jesus, “Help me!” as he sank in the waves. Calling out for more of Jesus doesn’t mean...
This is a cross made from 2 eights. In my sweet symbolic language with God 8 is the number of infinity, eternity, uncertainty, unknowing, the posture of trust. In the vertical it is in relationship to God. In the horizontal it is in relationship to others. The cross...
One often hears the phrase “You look radiant!” in the context of a new bride and groom, a man and woman expecting a baby, or upon holy baptism…. each circumstance having one thing in common…. Changed identity… a bride and groom become...
A significant source of shame and guilt…..it’s called “cognitive dissonance” and it leads to living as a false self. It will cause the vessel of a soul to shatter.
In 1978, the summer before Hurricane Fredrick hit the Alabama Gulf Coast in September 1979, Bill and I and our kids vacationed on the lagoon in Gulf Shores at the home of Katherine and R.L. Musgrove, along with their son, Pete, and several other Musgrove family...
My schedule today took me to contemporary worship at 9:30. The sermon was a touchdown, an out of the park home run, a message straight from God’s Word to my heart…. It was about something I pray for all the time. Tears flowed. I rarely put on makeup for...
Four years ago today, on August 23, 2018, I had written about feeling God starting to move or redirect me again…. 2 months later hurricane Michael had ripped our entire community out of our familiar places and routines and set us on a long road to recovery,...
“…..some of the most common problems troubling people today, including identity concerns, attachment issues, and addiction….” This was part of an invitation to a webinar on Christian counseling. “Identity concerns”…when life...
In April 1997 during a season of extreme stress, I began what I called my “experiencing”… it was an intense period of spiritual awakening, accompanied by a degree of confusion that got worse until one day it was made clear to me that I was...
