Perhaps our calling in this moment isn’t to point fingers at the skeptics but to create a world where truth and love are so ever-present that skeptics no longer have to question if God is with us. from “Doubting Thomas”in "Stillspeaking Daily Devotional" (2020)
Bad chapters can still create great stories. Wrong paths can still lead to right places. Failed dreams can still create successful people. Sometimes it takes losing yourself to find yourself.
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
I’m mindful that for many of us, we have heard a lot of “no’s” in our lifetimes. Especially from people who think they are speaking for or defending God. Whether implicitly or explicitly, we’ve heard things like:"No, you’re not supposed to be asking questions like...
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and resilience? What if it's pain? What if it's struggle?
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
When you sing with children, you are creating memories ... musical memories for the soul. In this high tech world the music we choose to sing with children makes us responsible for what we put into their hearts. from "The Chorister"
We who have seen the light of Christ are obliged, by the greatness of the grace that has been given us, to make known the presence of the Savior to the ends of the earth--not only by preaching the tidings of His coming; but above all by revealing Him in our lives....
Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.