Real rest is hard. Laziness is much easier to attain because it is always about serving self. I think we struggle to give ourselves to rest because we confuse it with laziness. Rest is one of the hardest disciplines to learn, because we are busy trying to please the LORD...
Have you ever noticed how often Thanksgiving is linked with Praise? All the way through the book of Psalms you will find these two running hand in hand, but you know what else Thanks is linked too? Peace. I have appreciated for a long time that both praise...
The other night our friend (who is living with us for this season), came home and I could tell he had a lot on his mind and wanted to talk. We spent the meal talking about intimacy with the LORD and why it’s so important to cultivate that. Life...
I surrender, Lord. I give you everything, my heart and soul and anything else you think is necessary. I just want you. Have you ever prayed that? I have. In fact, I’ve led my whole church in singing songs that pray this. I have...
I’m sitting here tonight with Mads, our little She-poo. She is curled up in a ball as close to me as she can get. She is stressed right out because we (and by we, I mean our contractor friend and plumber friend) are in the middle of renovating...
She looked at me with wide knowing eyes and nervously giggled, “You’re married to a Pastor? Oh my God! You must be bored out of you mind. I can’t imagine…” Her voice trailed off as her mind worked to make sense of my life, I’m sure. I’m fairly certain...
Breathe: inhale, exhale, and repeat…I find myself audibly saying this to myself—a lot. I can actually hear the sound of my mother’s voice, “Breathe! Quit holding your breath!” It jars me and shakes me awake and reminds me to be present. I don’t know why I do it, but...
