What do you say during times of crisis like these? You want to say something revelatory and deeply meaningful to buoy the spirits of people and give them sufficient hope to lean into the challenges wrought of the crisis and valiantly press through them. You want people to be reflective in a way that they are not during the calmer times so that … [Read more...]
Fear – How We Create It
Fear – How We Create It Fear. We all have it. Sometimes it’s just this slight apprehension, or this bit of inner angst, or this uncomfortable twinge that we experience. At other times it’s utterly overwhelming, leaving us helplessly paralyzed and violently shaken right down to the core of everything that we are. At certain times and in … [Read more...]
I Heard a Robin – Hope in the Dark
We all create expectations. But how often are our expectations a wholesale surrendering of ‘what could be’ to ‘what is?’ How often are they borne of a discouraged soul and a frightened heart that cannot see beyond the realities of the moment so as to envision a brighter reality standing at-the-ready in the next moment? How many times have we … [Read more...]
Beginnings – An End Is Only a Beginning in Disguise
Endings can be incapacitating and painful for a variety of reasons, most of which we never identify because we’re too caught up in the loss to see anything but the loss. We don’t really identify what we’re actually doing with whatever the ending is, or what the ending is actually doing to us because we’re too lost in the loss to even begin to … [Read more...]
The Death of Detours and the Road of Easter
“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” - Isaiah 30:21 A detour that holds itself out as the road from which it deviated is a path to regret. Yet, it seems that we embrace such deceptions and spend more time on the detours of life than the road of life … [Read more...]
Easter – The Desire for Reversals
What we want is opposite of what we have. We want world peace, but instead we are beset with world chaos. We want the hungry fed, but millions go hungry and millions more die from that very hunger. We want medical cures to the diseases that ravage lives, families and nations, but untold thousands perish hourly. We want communities that are free … [Read more...]
Quotes to Enrich Your Easter
Easter is an incredibly rich time. It is a reminder of the fact we are terribly fallen, but it is a far, far greater reminder of the phenomenal opportunity we have of being restored. It is inconceivable that God would die on a cross and rise again. Despite our depravity, that death was indeed solely for us. That is both the striking message and … [Read more...]
Easter – Reclaimed and Enlivened
Easter is time of new beginnings. More than that however, it is a time when we renew our belief in new beginnings. In a world of harsh endings and abrupt conclusions, Easter reminds us that there is always something new on the horizon even if we can no longer see a horizon. Easter is a promise that no ending, regardless of how decisive it … [Read more...]
Easter – What It Says and What We Can’t
There is that exhilaratingly incessant drive within us, that unidentified but entirely electrifying spark, that rogue passion that is part of us but whose larger part is so expansive that it seems not to be part of us at all. There are feelings that completely defy our capacity to create, but not our ability to feel. There is a seemingly … [Read more...]
Playing the Fool – Fooling Ourselves
We like to ‘fool around’ in ways that are sometimes rather humorous, quite innocent and very healthy. At other times we ‘fool around’ in ways that are rather devious and quite destructive. Sometimes we want to set the seriousness of life aside for a moment and be a bit playful. We need to remind ourselves that life is a serious venture where … [Read more...]
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