Tag: relationship with God
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Remain Humble
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“Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. Not because…
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Morning’s Pupil – A Poem About Finding God in Nature’s Beauty
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Morning’s Pupil – A Poem About Finding God in Nature’s Beauty The cool, clean air welcomes me from my slumber. Dark nothingness surrounds me like a safe cocoon, like a nurturing womb that shuts out all the distractions and clutter and noise and anxieties and all my insecurities until it’s just You and me, connected…
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Dancing With God
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I saw you at the dance, glanced at you from the corner of my eye. But I was much too concerned with my appearance, felt too stained and ugly, so I let you walk on by. I watched you jiving out on the floor, wondering what it’d feel like in your arms, to sway to…
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When Love Stepped Off His Throne
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Strung high above, dangling and dancing among the darkest night, shines a light for all – a star that guides to the bread of life. A mighty King lies in a strange, wooden bed wrapped in unclean robes and lying on a pillow of straw, ox and ass gathered by his head. A beautiful Servant,…
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The Cries of the Sheep
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The sheep lie scattered across the valley, each one willfully wandering away from the fold. Heads down, walking blind, grazing on grass that devours the soul. Yet, the evening leaves them frightened, and the darkness shakes them, shivering in the cold. They each look out across the withered pastures, surprised to find themselves so far…
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Accepting the Invitation of Sobriety
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Often times, the chains that are holding us back from moving forward are not fears or worries about the future, but fears of letting go of the past. We may not like the person we are and where we’ve been, but we’re comfortable with that person – we recognize their face in the mirror. Sobriety actually…
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Showing the Gospel – Love One Another
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“He [Jesus] laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him…When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed…
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The Sailor
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Release me – free to move loosely, like the waters of the river bend. Blow me across the sands of time, like blades of grass in the summer wind. Throw me into the chaos of your order. Tear down these walls of imprisonment. Unchain the thoughts that hold me as a prisoner in a world…
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A Change of Perspective
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Recently, I’ve been reading a book called “He Walks Among Us – Encounters With Christ In A Broken World” by Richard and his wife Renee Stearns, who is the president of World Vision – a Christian humanitarian organization. In it, the couple shares stories of children and families they have encountered in their work, applying the…
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The Winds of Grace and Truth
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God does not lie hidden in churches, does not remain enclosed in a secret tomb that only gets opened once a week. He is the light that penetrates the clouds on a dreary day, the rain the falls down from the heavens, the beauty in the sound of a piano key being struck or the…
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A.A. Step 2 – The Hope for Recovery
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There’s no point in addressing a problem if you don’t have a solution. But before you even dive into the solution, there’s a force that drives you there- hope. Hope is the fuel to the fire of recovery. The second you lose hope, the solution doesn’t matter anymore because “it’ll never work for me”, “I…
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The Search For God
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Many people want to find God- they just don’t know where to look. They look in churches, in nature, in people, and a vast selection of other avenues. But many still seem to be as far away from God as they were when they first started searching for him. So where is he? Well first…
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Being Authentically You
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Not only do I think he’s right, I would argue that it’s even harder now than it was during his lifetime. No matter where we turn there are influences everywhere trying…
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Faith in a World of Reason
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I’ve had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge my whole life. I’ve always absorbed facts and been slow to believe anything without clear evidence. At the same time, however, there’s always been a voice inside of me calling me towards God without my permission, leaving me trying to resist it time and time again. I guess…
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