When I lived with Bob and Jean I noticed that they routinely pray for parking places – and pretty much everything else, from good deals on tomatoes at Safeway to revival in America. As for revival, since there are other people interceding for that, if it does break out somewhere, we’d have to give partial …
Not fair! (part one)
Once we discover that God has joined our tears and can be moved with compassion, the world becomes a very unpredictable place. M. Craig Barnes Friend, I am not being unfair to you… Don’t I have the right to do what I want with (what is) my own…? Matthew 20:13, 15 When my kids were …
“Dad, we gotta get us some tattoos!”
When the handwritten message on the wall became clear that our marriage was finished before we actually crossed the finished line (the “till death do us part” part), I was in such emotional turmoil I wanted to put some distance between me and the pain. I craved escape. Thinking out loud I said the same …
Sowing in tears, reaping in joy…
If you can be devastated by someone else's pain and loss, and yet stimulated to action at the same time, this story will do it. I read it in a coffee shop while wiping tears away. So, if you don't like weeping in public places, read this at home. I didn't write this account, but …
Losers make the best dancers
“You turned my mourning into dancing.” Psalm 30:11 Mourning is nonnegotiable. It can’t be avoided in any life fully lived. Mourning and grieving are identical twins, and when we’ve irretrievably lost something, the healthiest thing to do is grieve. Anyone who doesn’t “grieve their losses” – the small ones and the big ones – is …
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