When we take the time to reflect on our life immediately before us, the more meaningful and beautiful It becomes.
02377 – Take Time to Reflect
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02369 – Attracted to Kindness
With each passing day of my life I find I am most attracted to kindness. It is a beauty that fades not with time but grows ever more striking. Kindness is never cryptic, you know it when you see it, when you hear it, and when you feel it.
02350 – Revolutionary Change
You can be shattered and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong--but you...
02277 – In the darkness…Do We Walk by Faith?
…when the time comes to enter the darkness in which we are naked and helpless and alone; in which we see the insufficiency of our greatest strength and the hollowness of our strongest virtue; in which we have nothing to rely on, and nothing in our nature to support...
02246 – Terrors vs. Christ
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.” -Calvin Miller, Letters to a Young Pastor
02220 – Waiting in Hope
Waiting in hope is an active spiritual practice. It requires a fundamental trust in God's faithfulness and the humility to allow the mystery of God's work to unfold over time.
02207 – The Most Regretful People
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
02152 – Our Children: Extensions of Ourselves
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us...
02141 – What Does Faith Require?
Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.
02110 – Pay Attention. Be Ready.
I am a pastor. My work has to do with God and souls--intense mysteries that no one has ever seen at any time....I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of...