The God Who Speaks

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 [...]

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I Remember Your Name

Sometimes I wake, and lo, I have forgot
And drifted out upon an ebbing sea!
My soul was at rest now resteth not,
For I am with myself and not with thee;
Truth seems a blind moon in a glaring morn,
Where nothing is but sick-heart vanity:
Oh, thou who knowest, save thy child forlorn
-George Macdonald, Diary of an Old Soul
Lord [...]

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Coming to a Standstill

The past 36 hours have brought another major ice storm in the midwest, and half the metropolis area where my wife and I live has been without electricity. Trees are down, roads are iced and blocked. We are staying with family members that still have intermittent power.
With everything coming to a standstill, it [...]

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All-Consuming

It’s a busy season. Family to visit. Gifts to exchange. Shopping to do. I’m struck by the way so much of our culture has been able to recognize the deep need in the human soul and sell it, promising the life we’ve always wanted if we just purchase this pair of tennis shoes, or that [...]

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One Good Memory

And even if only one good memory remains with us in our hearts, that alone may serve some day for our salvation.
-Alyosha, The Brothers Karamazov
I love this line. As the “hero” of the story, Aloysha is the moral and relational center of the novel, and Dostoevsky considers his way of life the way of the [...]

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His Handiwork

I will never forget the day my wife told me that the same God who carved out the Grand Canyon, who spills onto the canvas of the sky the beauty of the sunset, unique and gorgeous every evening, who springs up daisies and daffodils with his endlessly creative flare, knit me together in my mother’s [...]

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Early Will I Seek You

If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice,I’ll go to sleep each night trusting in you.
-Psalm 143:8, The Message

How we need this. How desperately we must awaken each day into the Gospel Narrative, to be reminded deeply of our place in it and God’s heart toward us in announcing the [...]

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