What Will You Tell?

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Those words are part of Mary Oliver’s poem Sometimes. She was known drawing inspiration for her poetry from nature; and it was said she had a lifelong passion for “solitary walks in the...

God Is In The Silence

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was...

Love & Stories

I read a short fiction book this week called The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo. It’s message is not specifically Christian, but one can find underlying spiritual themes. The concluding message of the book is that love and stories are what change the world....

Obedience

Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. This verse from Psalm 119:105 reminds us that God’s Word is our guiding path in life. What does that mean? How can we apply this? I believe there is a simple yet not so simple answer to...

Self-Discipline

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it...

Parables

Jesus was a master storyteller. Jesus knew that the mystery of The Kingdom of God was not the easiest to understand, particularly as it was so counter to the religious culture of the time when Jesus walked the earth. Jesus’s parables are seemingly simple and...