Crossing the Kidron
The Lenten season is a time of decision. It is a season when we cannot hide from the inescapable reality of facing some hard choices. We must decide if we will continue to live this life our way or if we will yield to God’s way. Lent is a time of spiritual challenges and one of […]
Have You Got Religion
Religion in its Greek root (Religare) means “to re-tie or reconnect to God.” Religion is to bind us again to the Source from whom we came and to whom we shall return. The practice of the spiritual disciplines is the way in which we get reconnected to God. Many people recoil at the word discipline. […]
Praying through Confusion
The writing of this book was a serious struggle for me. I would think about sitting down and working on my computer, but I just kept putting it off. When I did finally try, my mind went completely blank. The words would not come; my head would begin to hurt, and I would experience anxiety […]
Journey Through the Valley of the Baca
All of us who are on this journey called life will at some time come to our Valley of Baca experience. Baca was a valley that contained trees that exuded resin or gum. Baca was a valley of weeping trees. (The Hebrew baka is related to the Hebrew word for “weep.”) Surely we have been confronted in […]
Pray Without Ceasing
On this journey inward, we have questions about prayer. We want to know “How long should I pray?” “Where should I pray?” and “When should I pray?” During one of my times of meditation, I came across the following words. I share them with you because I believe that they will help you in finding […]
Thinking About God
Through the years I have learned that when I am intentional about establishing a time to be quiet before God—when I discipline myself to daily sit with him, taking some moments to focus my wandering mind and center it on God, then I am able to “think” more clearly about him. When I first started my prayer […]
A Meeting Place
Personal prayer is the meeting place between the Eternal One and me. That is why I believe in personal prayer, and every day I wait for God in my special place. In prayer, I wait for the God who comes. Every prayer-filled day is a meeting with the God who comes, and when at night I […]
Making Room For Jesus
Our lives are surrounded with so much movement, so many pressures, and so many demands that our spirit is often crowded into a corner. As soon as we awake in the morning, we are taken over by the ruthless urgency of our daily routine. Once we are out of bed, our daily planners and palm pilots […]
How Will I Get What I Want
Advent is a season of waiting, but waiting is not a discipline that we have learned to embrace. Like the children of Israel, we want what we want when we want it. God had promised Israel that the Savior would come, but the people of Israel did not know how to wait and took matters into their […]
What Do I Want?
Although it rarely emerges from us, the truth is that at the core of our being we have a determination to live this life with some sense of purpose. There is something irresistible about the methodical way life pounces upon whatever may be capable of sustaining it and will not release it until its own sustenance is […]