Good morning... "Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ," encourages Galatians 6:2 (NIV). But three verses later, in verse 5, we are told, "...for each one should carry their own load." Which is it? Are we supposed to carry each other's burdens or are we each supposed to carry our own [...]
Good Morning... As I told you, we were down to our last toilet paper roll, doling it out sparingly to make it to the morning shop. After fighting "back to school" traffic to walk with my friend, I shared my drive to recalculate the toilet paper needed to cover the weekly women's groups starting a new fall semester in [...]
Good Morning... Okay. So I bumped into one weird word again two days in a row. In response to my post "Why Doesn't God Speak Like Siri?" one subscriber wrote: "Mostly I've been hearing my God Garmin say, "Recalculating, recalculating." The next day, after teaching class to moms of high school seniors, one woman stayed back to share a [...]
Good morning... "A couple of years ago, I was in a small group for a year," one subscriber gave me permission to share her personal story. "At the end of our time, the leader gave everyone a Mason jar filled with business card sized pieces of paper folded in half. On each card was a different Bible verse with [...]
Good morning... Two days ago, the YouTube video I posted seems to have reach deep and wide. "I watched it several times and it makes me feel so peaceful," one of you told me. "I love that video about God whispering to us all the time. Thank you for sending it," another flagged me down to say. Another person [...]
Good morning... Where was God on October 1st? Was He sleeping on the job or overpowered by His evil enemy? Did He step back for a second, letting painful pandemonium take center stage in Las Vegas? When horrible happens, how do we trust that our ever-present, all-powerful God is still intimately at work? I remember a friend answering a [...]
Good morning... Six months ago today, the spirit of our dear friend Julie returned to heaven from earth (Ecclesiastes 12:7). Sensing her way through the process of grief, Julie's mother recently shared with me this revealing YouTube video, a video which amplifies the whisper of God. “Speak to me, God,” we yell. “LORD, let me see you,” we beg. [...]
Good morning... I pull from a cardboard box one of my nearly four hundred old journals and step onto the the elliptical machine in our basement. My top exercise of choice is walking and talking with close friends, but reading the handwriting of my past as I "elliptical" comes in a close second. "Every step of our journey is [...]
Good morning... A few days back, my morning message was about Jesus sitting in our passenger seat patiently encouraging us, “Start the car.” Refusing to honor our request for black and white instructions printed out ahead of time, God directs us, turn by turn, with his relentlessly relational voice. A subscriber added a thought we so often feel: “I would [...]
Good morning... "I liked your message," wrote my 22 year old son who is ministering to college students for a year in Australia. "The steps of discerning God's purpose/plan for our lives are challenging. I came across this study worksheet that looks into 'What is God's purpose for me?' It creates a few solid purposes that we all have [...]
