It was dark this morning. Dawn came, but the skies were overcast. Misty. Dense. Chilly. It felt (even inside me) like the "MONDAY of all Mondays." Maybe that's why all I could say was, "Oh, Lord..." Followed by a deep sigh. The culmination of days and weeks of physical pain that had ignited (and/or, perhaps, resulted from) some measure...
Oh, Lord... You know better than anyone how I have been struggling with my Internet since I started to draft yesterday's post! I had only just begun when I saw a message "Connection lost." I haven't been able to access it since!!! After HOURS on the phone with my Internet Service Provider and web designer,...
I couldn't believe my eyes, Lord! Actually, I could. I had to. Because what I saw was unmistakable! I just couldn't imagine how what I saw had come to be. I had walked out our back door, heading for my car. But a familiar, oh-so-subtle "heart prompting" stopped me in my tracks. So I would...
A young man I know is struggling. Against his will, he was uprooted. Taken far away from the only place he has ever called Home. Far away from his lifelong Friends. And the teenage Dreams he thought were about to come true. He has entered into a strange new life like an actor. Suddenly immersed in...
I feel a little like Eliza Doolittle, star of "My Fair Lady" -- a.k.a. Pygmalion. Her tutor, Henry Higgins, is trying desperately to help her speak like a lady of education and substance. "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain." Her mastery of this simple truth signaled the Breakthrough that led to her major...
BREAKTHROUGH. Isn't that what happens, Lord, when The Baby finally comes? When New Life bursts onto the scene, to be received with JOY? Just after the Labor Pains are at their worst? By Your amazing grace, Lord, I "got it" this morning. The Breakthrough I so desperately needed. The Realization. The Understanding. I have been in the...
We're living it every day... aren't we, Lord? The Ultimate Reality behind our everyday life? Is that why we are so drawn to its digital reenactments in blockbuster hits like Star Wars, The Matrix and The Hunger Games? There is always an oppressive, evil empire with a crueler-than-cruel dictator. There is always a death-like existence for...
It's Your way, Lord. Because You are Love. And You are The Way. "If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is Love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and...
I like to win. Sometimes, it seems, at any cost. Is that why that now infamous quote stuck with me? "Winning isn't everything... it's the ONLY thing." I don't even like that "truth." Maybe because it isn't a "truth" at all... is it, Lord? It's a value statement. And some values are outright lies. I discover...
It's all about the mind... isn't it, Lord? "The mind is a terrible thing to waste." (Slogan adopted by the United Negro College Fund in 1972) It's so true. We (as humans) have known this powerful truth (at least, on some level) for... how long, Lord? Hundreds of years? "I think, therefore I am." (Rene Descartes, "Discourse on...
