What leads to betrayal?
What Keeps Us from God’s Presence?
Soul Backdrop
Our souls grow in the swirling backdrop of wild philosophies that present themselves as new when they’re just coming around again deceiving, bringing regret and strife as they’ve done over the centuries. If we could only see through it. Their claims seem so virtuous and right but we forget how cunning our soul’s enemy can […]
Soul Mitigation
While this quote is true and needed, what can we do to mitigate this usual course of life? Can we lessen the regrets? How can we reach into our pasts, be restored & renewed, then meaningfully connect with our present & the present lives of people who are now in those wrenching years of choices […]
Soul Storage
There is an ever-increasing demand for storage facilities in the US. When looking recently at options for a temporary need, we couldn’t believe the price and how few were available. Paying to store stuff… Storage costs money. It can get to the point of taking away needed resources and energy. Our bodies and our souls […]
Shaken Soul
“Just the time I feel that I’ve been caught in the mire of self; just the time I feel my mind’s been bought by worldly wealth, that’s when the breeze begins to blow; I know the Spirit’s call. And all my worldly wanderings just melt into His love.” Steve Green How poignant are the […]
Soul Vapor
“I could try to outrun the sun with my superhuman striving. I could try to hide in the dark with my subhuman shame.” Leeana Tankersley What will it take to stop us? To get us to think about what we’re thinking about; to grasp what we’ve been given? Our rush to activity or our […]
Soul Future
As we grapple with and embrace God’s incredible grace, we are free to be forgiven, to walk in joy instead of shame and rather than judge others, we can love. What a relief and what a gift! This is my stance before God – justified freely forever! SO THAT I can now live […]
Soul “Not Enough”
A very popular and effective taunt to our souls is, “You’re not enough.” Not enough for your own responsibilities, for those you’re responsible for; for your job, for your personal life, for anything. So much lack, so much need, so much pressure, so many limitations. I’ve stayed there too long at times. […]
Shaken Soul
I’m shaken after meditating on Psalm 78. And it’s interesting that it came up in my reading this most holy of weeks, where our remembrance of the first holy week is full of defeat, blundering and failure. It is a bit encouraging. Not that we want to excuse our failures, but encouraging that there’s hope […]