Seeing Jesus … August 15, 2008

Last night my youngest and I served dinner at the Denver Rescue Mission. It had been a while since I’d been there. I usually feel God in places like the Mission and wonder why I’m not there all the time by the end of it. But last night even was cooler than usual. There were [...]

Lost In A Jungle … September 11, 2007

On a lovely trip to Kauai for our anniversary we managed to have quite an adventure. O’kay, it was totally horrible, but somehow fun looking on it after the fact. We decide to take a kayak through a jungle and venture on a short hike to some beautiful falls … BUT we never saw them! [...]

Thinking About Compassion … August 29, 2007

I’ve seen a lot of suffering lately. The loss some have faced leaves pain that I can’t just sooth and fix with some encouraging words, a meal, or even the truth of God’s love for them.
Compassion: enduring-with, feeling-with, undergoing together.
I think about my frustration in wanting to provide answers and fix things, and wonder [...]

From An Old French Guy … May 30, 2007

“The great and solid foundation of the spiritual life is to give oneself to God in order to be the subject of His good pleasure … and afterwards to forget oneself so completely that one considers oneself as a thing sold and delivered to the purchaser …
“This foundation being laid, the soul has nothing to [...]

Fire … May 29, 2007

A friend is here from Dwelling Places Children’s Home in Uganda. My husband connected with this place years ago on a trip there … I suppose before it was a “place.” It was just a dream in woman’s heart who wanted to be used by God to make a difference. So we’ve sought to help [...]

Tough Times … May 24, 2007

Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall, I will rise: though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me – Micah 7:8
When doubts disturb my troubled breast,
And all is dark as night to me,
Here, as on solid rock, I rest,—
That so it seemeth good [...]

In God’s Hands … February 6, 2007

I saw God holding out His hands, and I handed this “thing,” the place in the center of me that’s aching, to God. Now I could see what it was. It was the church, our church. It looked like a child’s social study project … a papier-mached structure in His hands with bits tacked on [...]

When I Know Joy … December 6, 2006

He has been so good to me. The most beautiful gifts my heart’s received have been my husband and boys. But in His presence there’s a stirring that goes beyond the most wonderful love I’ve ever known here on Earth.
let me be crazy with you, Lord …
crazy, in love with you,
and spend some time [...]

Loving When It Hurts … September 26, 2006

“God’s power is always able to deal with the unpredictable, even the rebellious and wayward, in ways that work every event towards God’s purposes.”
 
“What will God do? Discard the humanity project the way a potter throws a mis-shapen, still wet pot back into the primordial clay from which it sprang? Or continue to work with [...]