When you find yourself feeling lost, in a season of wondering What if? and What now?, be encouraged – God knows exactly where you are. Even when you don’t. It helps to have mileposts – the people and places – markers of love, hope, and healing, that remind us how far we’ve come. Much farther Read more…
Beautiful Things
God creates incredibly beautiful things, then gives them to us to enjoy. So enjoy. They are harbingers of great things. Beauty. Transformation. Miracles. Joy. So enjoy! Amen. What a wildly, wonderful world, GOD! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. ~ Psalm 104:24 MSG
A Change of Scenery
For over 20 years of my adult life, my work required me to wear a suit. And today, I had the privilege of beginning my second summer of driving grain truck in harvest. And I am loving it. God worked so many miracles through it last year that I can hardly wait to see what Read more…
Dream Big and Pray Big Prayers
The wonderful book The Circle Maker, instructs us to dream big dreams – pray big prayers. On page 22, there is a beautiful question: “What if Jesus were to ask you… ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ Would you be able to spell out the promises, miracles, and dreams God has put Read more…
Rest Must Precede Harvest
The busyness of the world would have us forget a simple truth – rest must precede harvest. There are times we must slow down, to get where we’re meant to go. At the end of your strength? What if that’s where you’re supposed to be? Yield to the process. In season, we are called to Read more…
Redeemer Restorer and Friend
My heart hurts for friends walking through trials. Through suffering that lies, ‘This will never end.’ I have been there. Many times. So I stand to tell the story, that I am grateful. For in the darkest nights I found my most precious gifts: As my brother suffered through dying, I discovered Jesus is REAL. Read more…
Hope in the Darkness
When darkness seems to have surrounded you, when the choices, mistakes, and evils of this world become too much to bear, there is a way through the fire… Pray. Prayer: it brings God near, His Hand to bear, and His Light to shine in the darkness. It’s not our job to fix the world. It’s Read more…
Snake in the Grass
A few years back, I was living up Hell’s Canyon running a Christian retreat center. When a friend came to visit, we decided to take a hike. As we climbed, we came across a harmless, but dead, bull snake in the grass, lying across the trail. Not so unusual. We stepped around it and moved Read more…
4 Steps to Fulfill Your Purpose
Who are you? What were you made for? Where do you need to get to in order to do that? The destiny of many, depends upon you fulfilling yours. Your dreams lived out, will perhaps carry others to theirs. Stop listening to the whispered lies: it’s hopeless, worthless, too late. Truth: an ocean of possibilities Read more…
In His Hands
You are never alone. No matter how it feels. There is always one who stands beside you. Has you by the hand. Going through a difficulty? It’s in His Hands. Life and death challenges? He is with you. Financial, relational, spiritual struggles? Yep. In His Hands. The enemy would have you believe otherwise. Do not Read more…