wordhabit

I’ve become one of those 5-or-more-books-at-a-time readers. How? Sometimes I get a little bored. It’s not that the book is boring but that my initial excitement over it wanes. Not a great excuse, I know. Other times, I’ll take my children to the library so that they can return books and get new ones. As…

Salvation enables us to enter into a healing journey with God. This journey is discipleship. Let me see what I can do to clarify these words by using a bit of dictionary jargon (in italics) and adding my own understanding. healing…to make sound or whole.Everything won’t be all good until we’re safely collected by Jesus…

I accidentally wrote “peak”…and I’m reading more than ever…guess I need to study my daughter’s spelling bee list with her. In other news, I’ve been thinking a lot about salvation. I’m often thinking about salvation because I find that there’s a close relationship between our views on salvation and other things like our picture of…

How can I forget the Lord’s mercy?How can I live as if his forgiveness is fleeting? The sunset reminds me to put the day to rest.The sunrise reminds me to make room for what will come. I am here in spite of what could be;I have yet to become dust. Until then, I will use…

Lord, when will the ice melt?Oh Lord, when will it be absorbed into the ground like a dog’s urine?For centuries, the ground has been saturated with blood that never should have been shed, while ice in all its iterations remains unphased, reinforced by the cold blasts of money meant for mercy not for murder. My…

Like thousands of others, I’m at home today instead of in my office. I have a lot of work to do, things I’ve just not been able to get to over the last few weeks because I’ve been stretched and exhausted by other things. Today was supposed to be easy to navigate. While the kids…