Recently, I went for my morning walk. I thought about just doing laps in the circle/cul-de-sac in front of the house. As I walked, I just kept going down the street. Thinking again, it would be better to walk out in the neighborhood. I made it to the next block. The trash truck had already…
Shame, Labor, Destiny
We sense, no, we know seasons have changed. I saw a posting by Kris Vallotton on Facebook. Its a quote from Thomas Leonard, a major contributor to the development of personal coaching. “Motivation is an external temporary high than pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.” Motivation is…
Keep These Words (In February)
When I was a child, I looked forward to February because my birthday was at the end of the month. With my birthday being in the dead of winter, the darkness and cold of February was easier to take. This month, also, commemorates some events in the Spirit in recent years that leaves my birthday…
Change
I’ve thought about erasing my master’s degree in divinity from my resume. Perhaps, by so doing, I’d look less educated, hirable and more normal. Then the thought comes to me regularly, I’ll never be normal. Wednesday night, April and I went to a life group at a nearby church. It was church, nothing to beat…
4 Episodes
I like it when I’m caught by surprise with inspiration. I was catching up in my gospel lesson reading in the Daily Office in the BCP when four episodes in the life of Jesus spoke to me. They follow each other in the eighth chapter of Mark. What I heard were lessons targeted at disciples,…
The Aircraft Carrier Dream (Some Days In January)
Two consecutive nights, I dreamed of being a college student. There was no exam anxiety or assignment tension. I was just a student attending classes. April looked up the meaning of a student in a dream. One of the meanings struck me. It means what is past is coming into the present. It could also…
Better Than Life (Some Days In January)
Over several days in January, including two nights of worship with April, I played two playlists of worship songs on my laptop on random play, about 17 hours of music. In these times of worship, How He Loves, sung by Kim Walker-Smith, played regularly to the point of annoyance. During one night in worship, it…
Some Days In January
The Super Bowl was slow in coming. The pitchers and catchers report for spring training weeks from now. Hockey is boring, and basketball isn’t interesting until March. What could we possibly expect from January except frigid nights, disappointing TV programming and fresh academic workloads with the start of a new semester? Maybe God will speak…
Psalm 102 In The Message – A Review
Write this down for the next generation so people not yet born will praise God:“God looked out from his high holy place; from heaven he surveyed the earth.He listened to the groans of the doomed, he opened the doors of their death cells.”Write it so the story can be told in Zion, so God’s praise…
Young Ravens
He gives to animals their food, and to the young ravens when they cry. His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the speed of a runner; but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love — Psalm 147: 9-11 …
Psalm 102 in The Message 