Category Archives: Faith

Downsizing to the Divine: Worship

Last month I wrote a devotion called "Downsizing to Divine Food," an excerpt from an unfinished book of mine called Downsizing to the Divine. A sweet reader contacted me and shared her struggle and weariness from years of too much "church" and not enough Jesus. I think we all have the potentialRead the Rest…

Waiting…Turn Your Wait Into a Verb

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. Lamentations 3:25 ESV Over the last eight years I have spent a good portion of time in a waiting room. In 2005 my oldest son had a traumatic illness occur and thus started theRead the Rest…

Downsizing to the Divine

Five years ago I started writing a book with the title, Downsizing to the Divine. Despite encouragement for my book proposal at the time, I never finished it, and doubt I ever will. Sometimes writing is about the learning . . . actually, writing is always about learning. When I recentlyRead the Rest…

The Beauty in the Dark

To love beauty is to see light.        -Victor Hugo Some may say there’s no beauty to be seen in the dark . . . perhaps believe that darkness is the absence of light . . . or preach that only dark things happen in the dark. But notRead the Rest…

Re-Gifting God’s Gifts

One of my favorite quotes from VeggieTales® comes from A Snoodles Tale: “…but Sir…if you made this great land, can’t you make Snoodles obey your command?” “…A gift that’s demanded is no gift at all.” God gives us gifts. He provides for us, and he is generously merciful and gracious,Read the Rest…