Have you ever wondered why there’s music in a church service? Is it just to fill time? Is it out of tradition – it’s what we’ve always done? Have you ever considered your role during the music? Did you even know that you have a role to play? For some, they might say that music…
It’s been a very long month full of soul-searching and healing. In November I was faced with a huge disappointment in my life that had me questioning everything about the ministry I was in. Add to that the holidays and the craziness of life, I stopped writing. The disappointment I faced forced me to take…
Have you ever driven past an airport at night and seen all the lights on the landing strip? I did last night. It’s a small airport so we were very close to the runway and I was thinking to myself how pretty the lights looked. I realized a couple of things about the lights. LIGHTS…
No. It’s a word that we seldom like to hear, especially if you’re a kid. “Mom, can I have a candy bar?” – “no.” “Mom, can I go to mall with everyone?” – “no.” “Mom, can I stay home from school?” – “no.” If you have kids and they’re anything like mine, the answer ‘no’…
With calendars that are bursting at the seams and to-do lists longer than a prescription side-effect warning label it seems that taking time to rest is not only impossible but foolish, indulgent and frivolous. Rest is for the other guy, a luxury we just can’t afford. We are forever tethered to our phones, our computers,…
Did you know that the skin on your face is replaced every 2 weeks? Or that the cells that line your gut are replaced every 2 days!? That’s crazy! And what’s amazing is that you had nothing to do with it. Well, of course besides the fact that it’s your face and gut, but you…
Rest… often elusive, frequently missed, always needed. Our bodies and minds are hard-wired to need rest, if we don’t offer it willingly, it will be taken by force. Burned out, sick, short-fused, stressed – all symptoms of a lack of rest. God has been whispering to my soul that I need to rest. To which…
It happens every year, your birthday! It’s suppose to be a day of celebration, fun and all things you love but sometimes it isn’t. More times than I can remember at the end of my special day I felt a twinge of disappointment, not because I didn’t feel loved by friends and family or because…
When you think of war you think shrapnel, smoke and the stench of fear. You think of foreign lands covered in debris and cloaked in confusion and destruction. You think of an enemy that is maniacal, twisted and relentless. What you don’t think is that the landscape of war could be your own soul and…
There are certain things we can count on in life. When you drop something, it falls to the earth. When the temperature is below 32 degrees, things freeze. When the humidity rises, hair expands. And when you think you’ve finished all the laundry you’ve really only fooled yourself. But seriously, we know that 2 +…
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