"..our spiritual growth happens not from frantic activity but from humble abiding."- Cara Ray This world is so fast-paced and busy—chaotic really. I feel always pressed to go faster, do more, be better, like I’m running in a never-ending hamster wheel chasing expectations impossible to attain. Can you relate? The sad result of this way… Continue reading A Striving Phoebe and the Pursuit of Holy Leisure
Category: Faith
Press On: Without Looking Back
“This one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ.” Phil. 3:13-14 No one thought she would make it. Yet there she was on the podium with three other gymnasts from… Continue reading Press On: Without Looking Back
Flourishing Tree or Unanchored Chaff?
"Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor......" Hos. 13:3 I captured the above image in a mountainous Ugandan village not far from the Kenyan border. Our short-term missions team had been ministering to imprisoned children in various government facilities. We looked… Continue reading Flourishing Tree or Unanchored Chaff?
It’s Just a Silly Sunday School Song
I love music. I love to sing songs and almost always have music playing, no matter where I am. As the music plays, I sing along, sometimes quietly, sometimes not so much, and definitely never in tune. I’m singing to the Lord, so I figure by the time my sour notes reach heaven, the Lord… Continue reading It’s Just a Silly Sunday School Song
A Cross of Peculiarity
"For not even His brothers were believing in Him.” John 7:5 Sometimes encouragement comes in such simple and unexpected ways. John 7:5, for instance, is a verse easily overlooked, and not exactly included in the list of the 100 most encouraging Bible verses ever. But this plain, understated historical fact offered me great reassurance this… Continue reading A Cross of Peculiarity
The Light for My Path 