You turned my mourning into dancing. Psalm 30: 11 If you ask me, a lot of Christians worship the idol of “Positivity.” They’re afraid to grieve and are self-medicating on happiness. Though I advocate no grim view of God or the practice of sour spirituality I just think that in our effort to avoid despondency, …
Finishing Well
Mark Twain said, “I don’t mind dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” But I devote most of my thoughts about dying to finishing well. I want to run all the way to the finish line. I’m particularly interested in how I can nail this last leg of the journey – …
God’s Kiss
So when you see your hair falling out in clumps, you could choose to celebrate it as an indicator that the cancer-killing chemicals, like assassins are hitting their targets, so chalk up the loss of mane as collateral damage. I didn’t need a blood test or an x-ray to tell me that cells–– the good, …
Repelling the Victim Virus
I decided early on that I didn’t want the “victim virus” to take over my mind or my mouth, because I quickly noticed that whenever I succumbed to victimhood, “poor me” kept stumbling around in the dark, delaying my progress through the murky shadows. As Eugene H. Peterson writes, “God feels our pains, but he …
Manna Means…
“Manna” means, “What is this?” The first manna recipients wondered what it was and how it got there, since it appeared everyday but the Sabbath and satisfied their hunger till the next delivery from the sky. My wonders have come in a similarly inexplicable way— only enough for the day, never enough to be stockpiled …
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