Have you ever wanted something for a long time? Worked for it, waited for it, dreamed of it only to experience what feels like the deep silence of God? What does it mean to hope in God when we are in the midst of facing life’s difficulties, when life doesn’t turn out the way we […]
Consecration Sunday I Kings 17 & Mark 12 When you think about Abundance & Scarcity…is it about reality or a mindset, or a […]
Mark 10:46-52 This passage is the second story in 3 chapters of Jesus healing a physically blind person. In Ch 8 Jesus heals a blind man in Bethsaida. From there until healing blind Bartimaeus in Jericho, the disciples are shown to be spiritually blind. At the beginning of this section in Mark, we are told […]
This weekend we could really feel the seasons shifting as we settle deeper into Fall – with the heavens opening to pour buckets of rain. The PNW is seriously making up for lost precipitation this year, and we are thankful for it. I raked up the leaves that had fallen Friday orning because I knew rain […]
I Corinthians 13:12-13; I Kings 19 October 18, 2015 Is there anyone who likes being lost? Most of us like life when it is predictable and safe, in control. We don’t often look for opportunities to get lost. I imagine most of us get agitated and anxious when we are off the known path. But sometimes […]
Habakkuk 2:2-3 – Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write a vision, and make it plain upon a tablet so that a runner can read it. There is still a vision for the appointed time; it testifies to the end; it does not deceive. If it delays, wait for it; for it is surely coming; it will […]
When I was a kid, I went barefoot a lot. We lived on 6 acres out in the country, and my feet traversed many of those acres without the comfort of shoes. Through the long tall grasses where we made grass huts, up the dirt path through the trees to my fairyland place, through the […]
The way I read the Parable of the Sower is how our Farmer God sows seeds of extravagant love & grace into the heart of each person. God scatters these seeds everywhere, in places where we can’t imagine they would take root. And once the seed is planted, according to the Talmud, EVERY blade of […]
There is a story from the Washington Post about 10 years ago. A man sat at a Metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin on a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, it was calculated that 1100 people went through the station. […]
Have you ever thought about where you intentionally go to meet God? Can you remember the times or places where your spirit awakened to the presence of God perhaps more than any other time or place? Perhaps without even knowing that you were going to have an encounter with the Holy One? We are entering […]