I remember the first "Heart Prompting" I ever sensed was from You, Lord. I will treasure it always. It happened in 1986. Thirteen months before I opened my heart to You for the very first time. I was in my second (and last) year of graduate school. I was back in my hometown after almost...
Why did you lead me here today, Lord? Is it because I spent most of yesterday soaking in the terrible, wonderful Truth of Your Cross? The place of the most horrific death ever, 2000+ years ago... now, the most beautiful symbol in the whole Universe? "He has appeared once for all at the culmination of...
Oh, Abba... Sometimes You answer my prayers so quickly, You take my breath away! How is it, then, that I can so totally miss The Answer... even when it is staring me right in the face? This morning, our time together was sweet. I can't even totally reconstruct how my "heart talk" with You went. Sometimes, there...
What has no teeth, but lots of "bites"? What has no mouth, but won't stop talking? :) What has no feet, but runs fast enough to reach the whole world in the blink of an eye? Answer: Your NEW WEBSITE for the work You are calling me to do, Lord -- Champions of Destiny! By Your Abundant...
Sometimes I grieve deeply at the success Your enemy has had in misrepresenting You. And how that "pendulum" can swing widely from one extreme to the other. I met a Christian recently who grew up in a church where all that was taught about You was anger and judgment and vengeance. I can't help but...
The Art of Being Wrong. Two days ago, we thought there was enough water in the Robinson River for a leisurely canoe ride. Wrong. Yesterday, we thought an 8.4-mile bike ride would work out the soreness in our leg muscles from "horsing" our canoe through the many places we had become grounded. Wrong again. I spent...
You and I have been in a conversation together for the past ten days. A life-and-death conversation. This conversation became necessary because I had "let my guard down"... ever so slightly. As a result, I was beginning to "dabble" in "old patterns." "It's no big deal," I theorized. I was wrong. Suddenly, the "dabbling" became a portal...
Weeds. They had taken over our herb garden in the thirteen+ weeks we were gone. The herbs had largely disappeared, but the weeds were THRIVING. Some of them had grown several feet tall... like mini-trees, complete with branches. I spent a fair amount of today pulling those weeds up... and planting new herbs. Out with the...
