What’s love?  That question is probably a topic to be debated.  We’ve got a million different definitions for this thing that we call “love.”  It seems that we’re in love with the idea of “love,” but we’re not all that caught up in the sacrifices that love will demand of us.  And so, we craft and we carve and we contort love to be something that we … [Read more...]

Complacency is a potently tragic hallmark of our lives.  We’ve certainly got bunches of it.  In fact, as the old saying goes, we’ve got it “in spades.”  Complacency is conceived in the bosom of familiarity, where something becomes so commonplace that we errantly render it as ‘common.’  We’ve yet to beat this terribly corrosive tendency we have to … [Read more...]

The desperate need for prayer in our world can hardly be understated.  It is the invincible porthole that grants us access to the halls of heaven and the throne of God.  It is the hope for this world of ours as the solutions of men are simply that…of men.  And since men have crafted the devastation and darkness that lays thick and dense around us, … [Read more...]

It seems one of the oddest dichotomies.  Life is full of strange and downright weird contradictions.  At many times in our lives, at many points both important and not so important we find ourselves pulled in two completely opposite, but equally compelling directions.  At times it seems that two entirely different people reside within us, each … [Read more...]

The majesty of our humanity and the capabilities laid out within us are nothing short of marvelous; so much so that we are barely cognizant of it.  All of us run thick with untapped potential.  We are rich with possibility and formidably equipped to tease the cusp of the impossible and to overcome it in the teasing.  The essence of our being is … [Read more...]

We get attacked.  That’s a reality of life.  Somewhere, at some time, someone is going to come after us.  We’ve going to get cut, clobbered or end up with an assorted collection of contusions.  Sometimes the intentions of those that hurt us are misdirected, and at other times they’re completely intentional.  Sometimes the actions of others are the … [Read more...]

It seems that the idea of taking a stand is perpetually taking a beating.  The whole idea of taking a stand is driven by the conviction that at certain times the need to take a stand is unarguably undeniable and inescapably inescapable.  Taking a stand is taking a risk, and sometimes a big one.  Unfortunately, not many people take a stand.  But … [Read more...]

We are not a terribly observant lot.  And we are not because we are focused on speaking into life instead of letting life speak into us.  We have our well-oiled agendas, and we have honed our biases to a razors-edge.  We know what we want, and we’ve effectively tied those wants to a rather harrowing sense of entitlement.  Therefore, it’s not that … [Read more...]

What would I do with a new start?  I mean a really new, ‘new’ start?  Not something that looks new because we’ve vigorously spit-shined something that’s old to a new luster.  Not some radical make-over of something that’s radically old so that it looks convincingly new.  Not a meticulous restoration that’s going to erase the footprints of time and … [Read more...]

With the New Year we long for a fresh start.  We want to wipe the slate clean, removing the smudges and the smears.  We want to get rid of the errors, the poor choices, the misguided decisions and the bruising flops that populated the previous year.  We want to wipe away old habits, clean up destructive behaviors, sponge up toxic relationships, run … [Read more...]