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Attitude of gratitude
It’s that time of year when I stop and look back on the blessings of the past year.** I read something this week about how being grateful requires an acknowledgment that by ourselves we have nothing;...
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Still crazy after all these years…
The start of a new year is supposed to be a hopeful time. We think about changes we’d like to make and things we’d like to do differently. But after a few decades of adulthood, it can be hard to be so...
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Eyes to see or How much money does it take to make you happy?
Last year, I wrote about how moved I was watching the Visual Bible**. And I often mention seeing some of God’s small treasures in the world around me, His amuse-bouches.** But there’s another...
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Mightier than the sea
One thing I love about going to the beach, especially here on the west coast of the continent, is that the sea is always the same and yet it’s also always different. Sometimes the tide is low and...
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Unveiled: in which I tell all*
*Or almost all Change is coming, and it is coming soon. It all started a few months ago, when there was an unexpected turn in my life. Unlike God who has His plan worked out from the beginning,** I was...
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Life between two worlds: the tension of dual citizenship
I recently returned from a month and a half stretch in the states. After 12 years living overseas, I had the coming-and-going routine down pat. It started with a mad rush the day before the flight to...
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Taking a pause to praise
I don’t know about you but I’m already plunging ahead into fall. The lazy river of summer has turned into a thunderous waterfall of possibilities. I’m making travel plans, considering new projects,...
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Deep Sabbath
A few years ago when Jack was away, I decided take a private Sabbath day. My normal Sundays are usually relaxing enough, but I discovered that’s not the same as spending a whole day alone to rest and...
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For pity’s sake
In Walk with Me, as Peter crosses the Swamp of Selfishness, he falls into a sinkhole of self-pity. Instead of trying to get out, he settles into the mud. Perversely, he savours his feelings of...
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Speaking of longing for God’s compassion
“Advent should be dark and tense. The world desperately needs a Savior, and in Advent we should feel the weight of that longing.” Mike Cosper ♦◊♦ “Come broken, come whole Come wounded in your soul Come...
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A Christmas benediction
“Bethlehem has opened Eden: Come, let us see! We have found joy hidden! Come, let us take possession of the paradise within the cave.” Ikos of the Nativity ♦◊♦ “May you be filled with the wonder of...
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The year as a house
from a poem by Jan Richardson: “The Year as a House: A Blessing Think of the year as a house: door flung wide in welcome, threshold swept and waiting, a graced spaciousness opening and offering itself...
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Ask me a question
Over the past few months I’ve been working on a study guide for Walk with Me: Pilgrim’s Progress for Married Couples. The guide has just been released and you can download it here for free [don't you...
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Speaking of questions
“Questioning God honors Him. It turns our hearts away from ungodly despair toward a passionate desire to comprehend Him.” Dan Allender ♦◊♦ “We act and live in confidence that someday we will see face...
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How to light a dark corner
I’m a natural morning person and one thing I love about getting up early is seeing the long rays of sunlight as they wake the world to another day. And one of the luxuries of keeping the Sabbath is...
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Speaking of reflecting God’s light
“God bring us back to life. Fill us with Your presence. Turn the light of Your face upon us. Restore Your image within us. Make us one with You.” —–Christine Sine ♦◊♦ In Him was life, and that life was...
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Watch out!
A few years ago after several houses were broken into and robbed, our neighborhood decided it needed to increase security. A guard house was built at the entrance of our cul de sac. But more...
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What you can’t live without
This year for the first time in a decade, I had the opportunity to enjoy my native New England’s summer. It was wonderful to see oaks and maples and elms and ash trees in full leaf. Every day I...
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Protected by the Rock
A week spent in a region of mountain walls and towering stones has given me a fresh look at what it means that the Lord is my rock. The tiny village where I stayed was built between two rocks. Whether...
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The fly and the elephant
I have been meditating a lot lately on a simple sentence from the book of Psalms: “Be still and know that I am God.” [Psalm 46:10**] However, knowing who God is–that’s not so simple. Immediately I...
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