"Apparently, nothing pleases the Lord more than being trusted to be good." (Frederick Dale Bruner)

I wonder how much our lives would improve ... how much the QUALITY of our lives would improve, if some of us said no more. Not just so we can "say no," but so we can say a really big YES to the things we are sure God is calling us to. What might your […]

"Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread." (DT Niles)

As I've noted before, I regularly attend a yoga class. And I regularly put my mat down in one specific spot. I always put my mat there, right next to the teacher, in the hopes some of her beautiful energy will transfer itself over to me. Plus, I always need to sneak a peek at […]

Sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. […]

As spring rolls in, and the birds start to chirp earlier and earlier each morning, I am reminded of a Stephen Covey quote that always inspired me and my early morning walking friend of over 15 years. Here it is: "If we can overcome the pull of the flesh to arise early in the morning […]