Oct
31
2022
My dad deeply loved Psalm 23. He meditated on it often. As I read C.S. Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms, he brings attention to something I haven't considered. He (God) prepares a table for me in the presence of my...
Oct
28
2022
A very sweet friend took me to lunch. She has been so kind in sending encouragement after a Words of Hope message she resonated with. As we met for lunch, she asked me about the writing process. For me, writing Words of...
Oct
27
2022
During date night, Shann asked me an elegant question. In the metaphor of sowing and reaping, he asked what two seeds I am thankful I am planting in my life. The seeds that I need to plant every day...
Oct
26
2022
I have been missing Dad so much lately. I walked by a neighborhood bench where he liked to sit and pray and shocked myself by bursting into tears. They came without warning. A friend of mine who was one...
Oct
25
2022
In math, A + B normally should equal C. In life, the same should happen. A loving home will produce loving kids. However, this is not always the case. Dad and I often talked about the psychological and spiritual...
Oct
24
2022
I recently watched a movie about a man who demands a perfect world to the point he abuses others to achieve it. Perfection is so seductive. It is another form of will, to power and control instead of surrender...
Oct
21
2022
Dad loved the phrase, “Set the Table.” For him, it was a call to action for those in leadership to provide a space for true community and transformation to occur. He got this idea from watching my grandmother. My...
Oct
20
2022
In C.S. Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms he addresses a topic I have struggled with. What do we do with the Psalms that pray down wrath on enemies? Here are poems, songs to God about the absolute trampling and destruction of...
Oct
19
2022
I am reading Swiss Reformed medical doctor Paul Tournier. He writes that neurosis is the division of right intuition and false suggestion.
I see this easily in myself. I sense that something is wrong but then follow false suggestions that...
Oct
18
2022
We have a quote on our fridge by one of the best poets in the world, Li Young Li, who says, "I don't have faith that God exists, since I experience God enough to know that God exists, haunting...
