Dare to dream is a phrase often used to help encourage one to dream, but when we dissect it, we soon see just how sobering it is. To dare is to risk. It indicates something is hard, perhaps scary, and if we take the risk, we may lose, be hurt, or let down. Yet, we …
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Failings Of A Forward Life
Failing isn't something we desire, or shoot for. Rather, we love winning, but failing will always be a part of life. It can't be avoided no matter how hard we try. Immaturity is the in-between stage of innocence and experience. As such, a maturing faith no longer fears failure. It doesn't seek it, but when …
“Endless Summer”
Vacation is a wonderful thing - no doubt, but it can also be difficult. When I am able to get away with my family, to a beautiful place like the beach, we get to escape reality in some way. I also find I do a lot more praying and communing with God when on vacation. …
Value Jubilee
Over and over again in Psalm 121, and throughout the Bible, God proclaims His protection for us. That He's our guardian - but why? Humanity must be valuable to him - all life is valuable to Him. He protects, He provides, and He pastors each of His children, and pursues all the lost. Yet, it …
Impressions Of Inadequacy
An area of struggle that periodically pops up for me is my fear of making mistakes. There has been, and sometimes still is, this sense of inadequacy within me that propels me towards perfectionism. Perhaps it's the agreement I made with myself long ago that I was lacking somehow, not good enough, and perhaps to …
Pile Up
"We spend our lives making our pile ups and then leave them". This translation of verse Psalm 39:6 seems to capture the futility of how so many of us choose to invest the limited days we have been given. Running around piling up our stuff with things that never last, and rarely satisfy long term. …
Untethering
Untethering is the word I would use to describe what is happening in my heart towards my prior unhealthy agreement with love. Love has been known to me as the highest form of "obligation" any person can have. This obligation could also be defined as a sense of binding, or bound up. In other words, …
Too Dangerous To Desire?
Desire is such a powerful thing. Even the word conjures up various emotions. Yet, for me, God has recently revealed an agreement I made with my younger self many years ago about this thing called love and the desire it brings. I haven't been able to see it before and even now, this revelation is …
“Story” Sage
I pray all are keeping well and healthy. I am still amazed by the historic times we find ourselves in. No doubt, this global pandemic, or the Great Pause, as it’s being called by some, will be studied in history books. As I consider the profoundness of these days, my deep desire is to not …
Ministry Without Mention – But Full Of Mission And Meaning
In the book of Acts 1 we meet two men, Justus and Matthias, who walked with Jesus throughout His ministry. As such, they were candidates to replace Judas, who threw away his leadership and ministry in order to go his own way. God was asked to choose between the two men, and Matthias was the …
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