This list of Greatest Hits plays on a loop in my head: “I’m busy, so I must be important.” “I must stay busy to remain important.” “It’s better to burn out than rust out. Right?” “If I’m not busy, who am I?” Yet… “God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our…
Category: God Sightings
Seeing God in the Everyday
Stressed?
The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. Tullian Tchividjian Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in…
Road Trip
Don’t Be Afraid…
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. I am Yahweh, your mighty God! I grip your right hand and won’t let you go! I whisper to you: ‘Don’t be afraid; I am here to help you!’ Isaiah 41:13 The Passion Translation Don’t fear change. Change is the wave you ride to your future. Don’t fear moving forward. Fear standing…
GPS
This is what the Lord, your Protector, says, the Holy One of Israel:“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go. Isaiah 48:17 New English Translation My Lord surpasses my GPS; with Him I cannot go astray.He directs me on busy highways; He leads me in…
Patience Cake
A young man is telling his Grandma how “everything” is going wrong…school, family problems, health problems, etc. Meanwhile, Grandma is baking a cake. She asks the lad if he would like a snack, which of course he does. “Here, have some cooking oil.” “Yuck,” says the boy. “How about a couple of raw eggs?” “Gross,…
Noteworthy
(Found some time ago while surfing the web) Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took the small boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the aisle to greet her. Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders…
My Father’s House
There are many rooms in my Father’s house. If this were not true, would I have told you that I am going there? Would I have told you that I would prepare a place for you there? If I go and do that, I will come back. And I will take you to be with…
April
It’s spring! FarewellTo chills and colds!The blushing, girlishWorld unfolds Each flower, leaf,And blade of sod—Small letters sentTo her from God. The sky’s a herdOf prancing sheep,The birds and fieldsAbandon sleep, And jonquils, tulips,DaffodilsBloom bright uponThe wide-eyed hills. All things renew.All things begin.At church, they bringThe lilies in. John Updike, A Child’s Calendar (1965) ******** And because…
Joy
Joy is a gift. Let the sunrise of your love end our dark night. Break through our clouded dawn again! Only you can satisfy our hearts, filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days. Psalm 90:14 The Passion Translation To all who mourn in Israel he will give: beauty for ashes; joy instead of…