I love what Henri Nouwen has to say about calling, and life choices. We Western Christians get so caught up in trying to figure out God's will for our lives ... who we should marry, where we should live, what we should study, what our career path should be. All the while, God is saying, […]

I had some time today to slow down and check in and connect with God in a way I can't when I am running. But I couldn't settle. I kept seeking out one more project to do, one more chore, one more thing I needed to check online or read or research. And then I […]

I've been reading and teaching about grace lately. How hard it is for us to comprehend God's grace ... We SO want to add our own effort to the mix; to show God how worthy we are of his free gift. I love this poem because it so beautifully paints a picture of the surrender  […]

I am reading through the Psalms this summer, starting with Psalm 50 ... because I usually fail to get that far in this Psalm reading exercise! I loved what I read about the opening lines of Psalm 91 in one of my study Bibles. Here is Psalm 91:1-2: "You who live in the shelter of […]

I know that praying "from the heart" is good. But I also know that praying another person's good words is also good; very good ... especially when we don't have words. I love this prayer: Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what […]

Oh so many of us spend our lives trying to earn the love of God ... When, through Christ, it is already ours. Rest, my friends ... rest in this truth. Listen to how Henri Nouwen puts it: "But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which […]