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Turning to His Way
Romans 2:4 says, “God’s kindness leads us to repentance.” Repentance may feel like a rather old-fashioned word; sometimes it comes across as a harsh word. We’ve probably heard it threatening fiery sermons that feel rather punitive. Yet, repentance may be different than what we assume it is...
Lenten Prayers and Ponderings
Questions to ponder and pray over during our Lenten fast: What is the hunger beneath the hunger about? What do I thirst for? How have I been filling my hunger/thirst apart from God? What is God up to in this time of fasting? Where do I hope God doesn’t ask me to deny myself? How do I resist...
Ponderings about Fasting
We fast to feast on God. Jesus sets fasting as the example in John 4 where He says, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about," and "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me." In Matthew 4, He says, “We don’t live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”...
Lenten Explorations
Lent invites us to explore. Ash Wednesday marks birth into a season punctuated with life and death: the life of Christ across thirty-three stunning earth years, Holy Week’s heftiness, the suffering road to the Cross, and His grace-offered death. Lent leads us along the road to our own need...
Along the Road from Lent to Easter
Uncertainty That place where my inability to control Whatever life is handing me shakes me to the place of Certainty that You are God and I am not. Uncertainty In the Time of Lent Brings all that I am To You, the great I AM The certain sure One Here in an uncertain season Where ...
Letter to a Beloved Child
My beloved Child, You know, I knit you together in your mother’s womb. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139: 13-14) I had great fun designing your skin in such a way that you could feel the grains of sand between your toes, the roughness of rocks and bark, the smoothness of a cool...
People of Story
We are people of Story: the Story of God’s pursuit of us out of His lavishing love for us. In His story, we enter our own story. The arc from before Creation until the Renewal of All Things shapes our narrative as Kingdom people. Luke 5:17-26 opens with a cast of familiar folks: Jesus, the...
Behold Your God!
"Behold your God!" (Isaiah 40:9) "Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth…" -- God, Isaiah 42:1 "Behold, a virgin shall be with Child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." -- Angel, Matthew...
Attention, Please!
Listen. Can you hear it? It’s been over 60 years since I last heard it, but as clear as the sound of winter waves that pound the shore, I can hear Grandpa’s steady, dub, dub, dub, dub, strong heartbeat. Listen. Can you hear it? It’s been decades since it creaked along, but as clear as the sound...
Notice Differently
We walked in silence by the South Platte River, listening and watching for critters. It was a habit of ours whenever my husband and I explored that patch of earth in our Colorado days. Our Critter Count started, one way we noticed God’s presence. His creativity inhabits all the ordinary moments...
Savoring His Presence
Attentiveness to God’s heart leads to attentiveness to my own heart. Attentiveness to my heart prepares me to be attentive to the heart of another. -- Lane Arnold When it comes to my spiritual life, my deepest desire is to be with God, to imitate Jesus, and be in tune with Holy Spirit. There’s...
