I recently injured my rotator cuff and the pain was intense for quite a few days. It made sleeping nearly impossible and I was surprised at how medicine made very little impact. However, I also realized this pain seemed to make all my other "problems" seem pretty petty and practically fall away. My focus and …
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No Weak Link Here!
We are all too familiar with what it means to be the weakest link - and not many desire to be considered one. However, sometimes we may be exactly that if we are not guarded and aware to those things that can derail our best intentions: Distractions: When we get distracted, we loose clarity and …
Fly Courageous
It can be difficult to maintain focus when we are bombarded with distractions and detractions pulling us from our divine destinations. Yet for the courageous Christian, willing to obey and trust God with whatever consequences come our way, the rewards are worth the sacrifice, especially in the areas seemingly under the highest assault: Faith: …
Cloudy “Daze”
When I travel by plane, I always enjoy the take off, especially when rising above rain clouds. For it could be cloudy and rainy one second and as soon as we burst through the clouds it's back to sunshine and blue skies. In all aspects of life, wouldn't it be great if we could rise …
Gone Fishin’
I recently took my kids fishing at the lake and almost immediately my son hooked a "big one". Well, it was big enough for him to initially think it was pulling him in the water. However, with encouragement from me, he successfully reeled it in, and after we admired and celebrated his big catch, we …
Quest Quenchers?
A quest is defined as a pursuit to find something. To quench involves satisfying a thirst. Therefore, a good question for us to consider as believers is, what are we pursuing to quench our deepest thirsts? For we are all on a quest of some kind, either searching for meaning, purpose and value. Unfortunately, even …
Persistant Pursuits
When we fail to understand our greater purposes as believers, the mistakes from our past, the immediate demands of our present, and the pressures to ensure a "successful" future can compound to distract and discourage us from our most productive devotions. Thankfully, God persistently, eagerly and graciously pursues each of us with His loving truth …
Entangled By Entitlements
Allowing ourselves to believe this life owes us anything sets unrealistic expectations of fairness that only fuels our feelings of frustration and discontentment. For it's been correctly stated that gratitude begins where entitlement ends. Thankfully, God's word directs us on how we can best break the entanglements entitlement can create in order to experience a …
Focusing Faith
My need for glasses and contacts started while I was in elementary school. To correct the problem, my doctor had me look through a variety of lenses and then like focusing a camera, he helped me to once again see clearly. Likewise, God works in our lives in a variety of ways to help sharpen …
Control Check
I was recently sharing with a friend how I have this frustrating tendency to drift from abiding mode and plow straight into striving mode at times, but that I've learned to quickly identify when it's happening. It's quite simple really, for when my inclination to control outcomes begins to kick in, it always results in …
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