Not afraid
October 10, 2024
Imitate Jesus
2024 October 6 To move away from the destructive habits inside us, Jesus points to holistic values that elevate our thinking—wisdom and not just facts. Creating our personal image in our own eyes is not the same as being a mirror of who God designed us to be. Rediscover how a perfect human being would…
Refocus
2024 October 5 Where does my hope come from? The psalmist’s cry refocused once more on what sustains life. Our senses and minds need an eternal focal point. Unfortunately, dreams about what’s ahead can get crowded out in life’s competing traffic jam. Feelings within ourselves mess up our perception. Taking time to direct our attention…
He came to fulfill…
2024 October 1
Interesting days
2024 September 30
The inner life
2024 September 28 Sheep truly make me work hard. Yet this time, Dixie helped a lot more. She’s a lot more eager and is becoming braver. Her confusion comes when some of the sheep don’t move at all. But if they run, you can tell she’s happy. My ability to communicate with her took a…
Deeper still…
2024 September 23 How I view the Bible these days entered a different phase this year. It’s similar to what happens in our Word by Heart schools within YWAM. Students in that school enter the Bible story written down by asking how the writer felt, what the writer saw, where it took place, and what…
What is good?
Three sheep injured in a dog attack a while ago are still hurting and sick. I kept them in a small field where I could check them daily. One had been inches away from dying. Yesterday I wanted them to follow me to a new pasture. I had kept them fed, so they began to…
Promises
This morning I was pondering Darlene Cunningham’s teaching on the belief tree. Somehow the visual image of the massive and magical tree in the Avatar movie got stuck in my head. When I think about Avatar’s “belief” tree, I disagree with their worldview, yet I ponder the idea of life within that tree. It was…
Dixie and I need more…
What are you hearing these days? I’m writing out of joy and excitement. This season of my life is hard to describe, yet it was always available and ready for me to enter. Many, many familiar words from scripture and from others who taught me, whether they are YWAMers or not, now inspire me. Does…