We were talking on the phone. An issue was troubling my dear friend… deeply. She began to tell me about it… giving me the context — the history — so I could better understand The Present. She had barely started when she exclaimed: “I’m watching people run that red light! They keep doing it! Why …
There were two major limbs. Each weighed hundreds of pounds. They were no match for our pole saw. We could never have been able to lift the limbs. But by cutting them off, we lifted the tree. It seemed counter-intuitive. Cutting these limbs off so deliberately. There was nothing wrong with those limbs. They both …
You know me so well, Lord. And I am eternally grateful… for Your Unfailing Love! You know how to blow on my “embers” whenever my “fire” starts to smolder. You know how to snap me to attention whenever I nod off. You know how to lift me onto Your shoulders whenever Life’s mountains appear too high. This week, …
I want to hear them all, Lord. Every single story behind Every Story! That’s one of the things I enjoy most about the Olympics. Watching accomplished athletes compete in all kinds of grueling sports. Hearing the often-dramatic “backdrop” to their respective journeys to The Games and through Life. Like the gymnast from Uzbekistan who is competing in …
This was the thought You birthed in me this morning, Lord, as I rode my bicycle in the early-morning dew. It was not a new thought. People have been having this same insight for… what, Lord? Thousands of years? But it isn’t the “take” Doubting Thomas made famous. “Unless I see the nail marks in …
What are the chances, Lord? They must be ZERO. Dear friends had a prayer request for me tonight. A devastating turn of events for a family dear to them. A three-year-old whose future now seems very much at risk. There is never any time like the present to come into Your Presence… is there, Lord? …
We were talking to a doctor friend of ours. By Your Grace, Lord, he has saved more than one life in our family. He looks way younger than his chronological years. He smiles from the inside out. That’s what he said when we noted how terrific he looks. “I love my job!” He doesn’t just …
I was fine at dawn. No problem on our eight-mile bike ride. My breakfast of champions — Grape Nuts — went down without a hitch. That’s when it hit me. Slowly at first. Slow enough that I managed to drop my honey off at his appointment. I even shopped for groceries. But something just didn’t feel …
As a therapeutic technology, a Hyperbaric Chamber shows great promise in healing infections. By using greater atmospheric pressure — three times what’s normal — the lungs are able to absorb more pure oxygen. Oxygen which can then be sent throughout the body to fight bacteria. Was that what I just experienced, Lord??? I wasn’t at a …
Things will be better when… If only I could… I can’t wait until… I’ll finally be happy when… I won’t stop until… Living in The Almost. The Not Yet. The What If. Reaching for the Out There Somewhere. Living for Tomorrow. Missing Today. “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be …