I’m ready, God, so ready,
ready from head to toe.
Ready to sing,
ready to raise a God-song:
“Wake up, soul! Wake, lute!
Wake up, you sleepyhead sun!”
-Psalm 108:1-2, The Message
“I will awaken the dawn.”
- Psalm 108:2, NASB
I am this morning journaling my soul awake. This is my song; my pen my bow, the empty page my instrument. [...]
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Awaken My Soul
Posted in Journey, Longing, Love, Mystery, Prayer, Restoration, Salvation, Wonder, tagged Jeremiah 31:3, Lovingkindness, Psalm 107, Psalm 108, Redeemer, Rescue on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toward the Deep
Posted in Invitation, Jesus, Journey, Love, tagged Calvin Miller, chemistry, Dallas Willard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Into the Depths of God, Psalm 34:8, St. Augustine, The Cost of Discipleship, Vincent van Gogh on November 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The fishermen know the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangerous sufficient reason to remain ashore.
-Vincent van Gogh
It is a part of my make-up that I am compelled toward the deeper places, to delve into the inner-world of things. I was that way even as a kid. While [...]
In-Tension
Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Holiness, Jesus, Journey, Love, Scripture, tagged 1 Timothy 6:19, Hebrews 12:3, John 11:7-16, John 12:15-17, John 4:27-33, John 9:1-3, Lazarus, Luke 18:31-34, Luke 18:34, Mark 9:14-29, Thomas on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The disciples did not understand any of this.
-Luke 18:34
The journey we’re on with Christ is one of great tension, of what can at times feel like a balancing act, tug-of-war between two opposing forces and we are tight-roping the taut rope between, trying at times with all our might not to lose our balance.
But knocking [...]
The God Who Speaks
Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Invitation, Jesus, Journey, Longing, Love, Prayer, Remembering, Scripture, Story, tagged Abednego, Ephesians 4:30, John 14:13-15, Meshach, Shadrach on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the ways that God has been speaking to her lately. She said that she used to hear people talk about “God told me this” or “God told me that” and she always wondered, “How do you know that God said that?” or “How [...]
On Assignment
Posted in Calling, Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Jesus, Journey, Love, Restoration, tagged Colombia, Missionary, Teens on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the coolest things I’ve learned recently came from a group of friends who take seriously the call to follow Jesus in this world and into the heart of the arenas they work in, live in, and move about in. Whatever their profession, wherever they are living right now, whatever their family looks [...]
Taking Up My Cross
Posted in Counsel, Healing, Love, Prayer, tagged Discipline, Lazarus, Wounds on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What does it look like to love? It looks like Jesus. Period. He is Love, and as such is the perfect picture of it. And to model it, not only do I need grace in godly measure, I also must model Jesus in His life, even as He is in me — not only in [...]
The Lover Known as God
Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Expression, Invitation, Jesus, Longing, Love, Wonder, tagged Lover, Rich Mullins on March 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Seeking God is such a curious thing. In a very real sense, I cannot seek God without His grace to find me first. Many of us are familiar with John’s refrain that we love Him only because He loved us first (1 John 4:19). But it’s this thing called love that’s got me in such [...]



