Obedience

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Proverbs 25:11   What happened next felt like a physical hit to my body. I actually had to sit down…

All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. John 6:37 Painfully, I had a crush on plenty-o-boys in my teens, but this…

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine… John 15:4 NIV That ping. Sometimes I wait… as if a few…

“This, then, is how you should pray…” Matthew 6:9 Thy will be done. I’ve known for 74 days.  But this confession began long before then. A first kiss 9/11 A diagnosis The unexpected phone call …Memories…

My Sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Psalm 51:17   I’m hiding. I’ve typed and deleted that phrase about four times. Obviously, I…

“I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold,…

…My immediate response was not to consult any human being. Galatians 1:16   Some decisions don’t require consolations…   Here’s something about the Holy Spirit:  He often sounds way better in my head. Have…

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.…

Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity… (Even when it hurts) Hebrews 6:1 Even when it hurts – à la Heather   It was the exact…

…You ate the loaves and had your fill.  John 6:26   At the top of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, a few hundred feet from the Arc de Triomphe, you’ll find my personal heaven on earth: Laduree.  This…