When I wake up in the morning it is usually my intent to spend some time with God by reading His Word. And to share it with you all more days than not. And at the end of the day I try to reflect on the day and my experiences with God. I do MUCH [...]
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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. –Paul Claudel I have a friend who is in the hospital for three days as they try a new experimental medication for his chronic A-Fib. I won’t pretend to understand even part the ramifications of A-fib [...] This morning I was a bit behind in my work and didn’t get the recycling bins out at my usual time. As I’m working away I hear the clinking of glass and make a frantic bee-line for our recycle bins and rush out the door to see the recycling truck at our walkway. Now, I [...] “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882) Reading these words really resonated with me this morning. I am my own worst critic for the very reason that Longfellow states: I know what I am capable of. When [...] “What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.” –Cliff Richard I’m not going to break out into a chorus of “They will know we are Christians”. Does it really matter that someone knows whether or not I am a Christian? Let’s [...] “We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in his presence in a very different sense.” –Teresa of Avila As I read this moments ago it occurred to me that I can do not greater work than to remind others that “we are always in [...] |
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