What a difference a thousand miles can make for one’s perspective. The calm, pristine and balmy ocean waters stretched endlessly into the horizon. A stark contrast to the frigid, snow-blanketed mountains we recently traveled from.
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Jonny Diaz gets us. He knows the human struggle with rest and presence. In the opening of his song, Breathe, Jonny paints a frenetic picture of a rushed morning and feeling behind before the day
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Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” He said this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have
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I grew up in the evangelical culture of the 1970’s and 1980’s hearing hundreds of sermons on Bible prophecy and the signs of the times. My parents believed in regular church attendance and my brother
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Can We be Thankful for the Fleas? Ephesians 5:20 tells us we are to be thankful in all circumstances. But does that mean we are to be thankful for the fleas? Well, sisters Betsie and
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Crinkle, crinkle. I turn my head again. Crinkle, crinkle. Out on the sidewalk I had been engulfed in a brief windstorm of leaves. Now, sitting back in my office, I clearly am still carrying a
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Walking through a cemetery puts life in perspective.
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A famous author I never heard of recently commented during an NPR interview that he had lost the capacity for faith. Some people cook, some people sing, some people believe in eternal consequences. He doesn’t.
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