Life is a mist… here today and gone tomorrow. Maybe one of the greatest tensions held in this world is between life and death. This tension is inescapable… it is the tension felt when looking into the eyes of a newborn infant and feeling the exhilaration of new life. It is the tension that we [...]
Life is full of joy… and sorrow. These two seem like opposites. Yet it is the contrast between these two that bring each of them into fuller expression. Life is a interwoven tapestry of events – both those that are filled with joy and those that are filled with sorrow. There is no escaping either… [...]
I was created for a purpose. One that is beyond my understanding. But one that exist none the less. I was created for His fame… for His friendship… for His love… I was created to live for something more than myself. Something that constantly beckons me against all fear to lean even further into the [...]
Life is a blur right now. So much has happened in the past 6 months… and there seems to be a momentum of consequences that is threatening to hurl me into a tail-spin of confusion. As hard as I try to slow down – life only seems to be getting faster. As much as I [...]
Sometimes it is so difficult to keep one’s focus on God in this life… It is so easy to become so distracted by the seemingly endless list of distractions offered to us. Why is it that I am so weak? I willingly choose to wander from the very place I know that God desires me [...]
Why is it that we hold so strongly to our “religious” beliefs. Is it that we truly believe them with all that we are… or is it that our insecurities about that which we believe simply masquerade themselves as confidence? Religious confidence is easy to hide behind. It is much more difficult to be open [...]
Mystery haunts us. We do not like it. But the fact is that mystery exist all around us. The longer we deny this mystery or pretend like we can master this mystery… the longer we will pretend and maybe even believe we are in control. As long as we feel like or believe we are [...]
Life is too short to happen-chance one’s way through it. There is far too much at stake to spend time spreading one’s time, energy, gifts, and influence thinly over a large area. Jesus understood what it meant to pour his entire being into a focused area… namely twelve men. It was through these twelve men [...]
“Nothing is constant – except change itself.” Change is difficult. It is something that we naturally attempt to avoid because of the discomfort it so often brings. This discomfort is usually attached to the unknown future. Because of the unknown – we often times fear change – not due to change itself – but because [...]
It is far too easy to become distracted and complacent. Right now my heart is both content and restless. I feel comfortable, but it is this comfort that also brings with it restlessness. I do not want to become so comfortable that I reject (maybe even unknowingly) opportunities to live life to the full for [...]