If you remember from last week, we talked about how our spiritual disciplines (prayer, solitude, study, service, etc.) should truly be a response to God’s love, grace and mercy in our lives. Today, we will focus on three inward disciplines: Prayer, Study and Meditation...
Read MoreDiscipline. When you see the word by itself, what does it mean to you? We use the word, "discipline" to talk about how we train our kids as a parent or how we handle employees when poor decisions/actions are made. Discipline often means a punishment to correct disobedience...
Read MoreAround noon, there was a man in a white Chevy truck that seemed to be in a hurry. We loaded his one box (seriously dude, you waited an hour for one box?) and about the time it hit his truck bed, his truck bit the dust. He was out of gas...
Read MoreYes, I actually can skip many of the tests and trials of life; at least I can postpone many of them. Problem is I am likely to wind up more than just a little imperfect and more than a little incomplete, and lacking more than a little...
Read MoreIn Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where my family and I lived several years ago, we rented a house with several different kinds of fruit trees in the yard...
Read MoreLast week I told of my pin oak tree. So, what is the moral of the story? Tenacity is important in life…but tenacity alone is not enough to make us “thrive.”
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