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Photo by Yaniv Knobel “Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.” – Psalm 108:2. It is time for a great awakening. All of nature conspires with the God of nature to be your alarm clock. Every new day and every fresh season sound forth the alarm. All cry, “Wake up!” Wake up your…

Prayer is the time for alignment with the heart of God.

Do we really need to be afraid of the color, “chartreuse?”Is there room for the dramatic and radical on the road to a center-point of balanced truth?

"Little Girls Wiser than Men" – Tolstoy   "Oh how I love your law!It is my meditation all the day.Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,for it is ever with me.I have more understanding than all my teachers,for your testimonies are my meditation.I understand more than the aged,for I keep your precepts.I hold back…

  Sharon Colgin and her "Extra Mom" dancing with my Mom at my nephew's wedding.   Mother's Day, not Mothers' Day is an American tradition started by a daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis,  who felt one day needed to be set aside for children to honor their own mothers. Paul reminds us that we are part…

Photo by Leio McLaren (@leiomclaren) We do not have to be understood.We do not have to be popular.We do not have to be validated by everyone.We must be consistent and integrated, which is the heart of integrity.We must be faithful to the calling we have received from on high.And, occasionally, we must be brave. We…

We have needs, wants, and opinions and these all serve a purpose, but the purpose they serve is higher than our needs wants and opinions.

Is it an urgency, and  emergency, or a priority?Or … is it all three of two out of three?Or … is it none of these?What must you be doing right now?

Have you come to destroy us?That is the question posed by the destroyer.It rings a bell of irony.