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Recently, I was blessed to have another birthday. Since I was born on the fourth of July, I pretend some of those fireworks are just for me. As you look up at those spectacular displays of man’s ingenuity, you can’t help but see past all that and move right on to the stars. The fireworks […]
Have you noticed there are people who just don’t pay attention, I mean they can’t be keeping up with the news. They go around with a sunny smile on their faces, with happy thought to share, as though everything in the world is just peachy. Of course, you appreciate their optimism, even envy it a […]
Anger is one of those emotions we don’t readily bring up in polite conversation. After all, we’re nice people and we think there’s enough craziness in the world. If fact, we’d like to balance the scales, weighing in with compassion and kindness and those things that keep people calmly going about their business. Proverbs 29:11 […]
What time is it? Of course the answer to that question comes with over a hundred clichés, depending on the context. It could be time to get going, or maybe it’s time to give up. It might be the time of your life or simply bedtime. Time is only connected to our lives here […]
Your mind is a complex character. It can wander off on its own. It can fall down and skin its knees as it carries the weight of the world. It can imagine defeat or paranoia or corruption. It can walk back in time to keep you stuck in a moment. It has boundless energy, and […]
Ephesians 1:18 says, “I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope He has given to those He called–His holy people who are His rich and glorious inheritance.” As you rise each morning, you may not immediately embrace the idea of getting your glow on. After […]
Love matters! What kind of love? Every kind! When your heart is open to all that God would have you become, then love is your world view, your faith view, and your life view. It is the place where you start and the perspective that drives everything you do. That familiar scripture from 1 Corinthians […]
Did you ever just blurt out something you were thinking, not intending for anyone else to hear it? The moment it happened, you felt embarrassed, your face turned pink, and you wondered where you could go to hide. Somehow the words just came out and they seemed to hang in the air like a giant […]
“Hope” is the thing with feathers– That perches in the soul– And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. This portion of the poem by Emily Dickinson resonates with us for a lot of reasons. One reason is that we can’t always identify what causes us to have hope. We don’t […]
Sometime ago, I wrote a book called The Heart-Shaped Life Daily Devotional. My hope with this series of books was to remind each of us that it’s okay to have a soft heart. In fact, it’s more than okay. In God’s view, it’s the only way your heart is open enough to be shaped at […]
