Last week, our family spent a quick weekend in Tampa after spending the previous week at a conference in Orlando. I brought a special souvenir home …
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how god mingles his holiness with our humanity
First today, I have some quotes that make me want to jump up right there where you are and make a run for Jesus all around the room:"You have made us …
Glimpses of Glory From Our Trip to South Africa
Morgan and I went to a ministry conference in South Africa last week. I am still sleeping when I‘m supposed to be awake and awake when I’m supposed to …
shalom: for these days when nothing is as it ought to be
I'm starting to feel like the world is one giant swirling gust of wind.Swoosh... there are ants in my kitchen and I can't seem to get rid of them. The …
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holding onto God
This morning we read Psalm 62 as a part of our family devotional. We asked everyone to close their eyes and listen to the beginning and the end, and …
beautiful shame
I see Your face as it rises over the land,Who can behold such a vision and not surely die?I stand amazed.I crumble slowly in the light of Your …
an ordinary ocean of glory
The closest I have felt to God happened many years ago. I stood on a cliff in Santa Barbara on a windy June morning, majestic waves crashing below me, …
the french countryside and God’s love
"Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you …
when every day is a fresh awakening
I woke up at 5 am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep.My mind was full of projects, restless ideas, hopes unfulfilled, and dreams longing to …
living empty
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." -James …
he stands up
There are troubles that come and drain the very will to take one more step.Those are weary days indeed.Days that all around looms a valley of death, …
loud and clear
On Sunday I gave one of my best friends the update on our room that flooded in July. It wasn't a happy report.I dubiously listened to her …
