Coronavirus stress! Where can we go to hide? My husband and I were late, rushing to catch a train in Florence, Italy. A hectic crowd pressed in all around us in the busy station, to the point that I thought I might get hurt. John was...
Transform: Every day, we are faced with choices to be either like our culture or like God. Many times, we aren’t even aware we’re making a choice. Our culture continually feeds us its perspective through all aspects of media as well as through the people around...
Intimacy with God can be an elusive thing. "Spiritual disciplines have given me the ability to see more of the face of God in my life." Carol Dodds told me this when I interviewed her recently. Wow. Don’t we all want more of that? The practices...
Centering prayer is one of the “spiritual disciplines“ that can be powerful in your experience with God. It’s actually an ancient practice within the Christian church from centuries past. These practices are described in detail in the wonderful book by Adele Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook. Here’s my...
I absolutely LOVE the thoughts about thankfulness that Judy Douglass shared with me during her recent visit to Austin. https://youtu.be/ns63oI-G46c...
Disappointment: An Opportunity to Learn There are no mistakes in life, only opportunities to learn a new lesson. Okay, so test that statement with me right now. Think of something from today or some time recently when you made a mistake or something felt bad in your...
My years of deep suffering came as a big surprise to me. I'd always been in great health and enjoyed a close relationship with God. When my health crisis first hit back in 1997, I was strong spiritually, fully trusting God. But as weeks of...
It was a surreal, supernatural experience amidst the most ordinary of circumstances. I was in a meeting where many different people were telling about outstanding aspects of their past work year. And so guess what was going through my mind? Thoughts of comparison...
February 27, 2012 Every person is a unique creation of God…His masterpiece. You are a unique creation of God…You are His masterpiece. Like every snowflake, each human being is distinctly different. God has imbued you with unique strengths, qualities, perspectives, and talents. So why is it so hard to...
February 20, 2012 "Recurrent negative feelings--those that loop in the same cycles again and again without changing--are unmet knots of our past that got frozen in time for the precise reason that they were not met with kindness or acceptance." Geneen Roth On our road to becoming...