A soft place for my random thoughts to land.
Today I leave Prince Edward Island after a six day adventure with my daughter, Leah. We came to see Anne-land and tromp where Lucy Maud Montgomery tromped. We walked through the Haunted Woods and Lovers Lane, took Matthew's carriage ride around The Lake of Shining Waters, stayed at the Kindred Spirits Inn, and sat under…
This is not a post about the kind of guilt that we feel when we commit sin. I would like to post on that sometime…but not today. Today I want to write about the guilt that we feel because we live in the 21st century, or in America, or in a middle class family, or…
Well, by now you’ve set your goals and are well on your way to stardom. But I am still stuck with a list of possibilities that need to be reconsidered and trimmed down. I took my own advice and just allowed the ideas to come. I prayed hard and specifically to be led to goals…
This is a post about goal-setting. I’m really bad at it. Not posting. Goal-setting. (Although a case could be made for both…).
Final Authority: (This is one job that must be enjoyed while it is in play because it can disappear overnight.) My children ask me the most random, interesting, perceptive questions and somehow because I own the car keys, I am supposed to know the answers. “Why are the cousins late?” “Why makes blue?” “Why did…
See if this intreaty sounds vaguely familiar: “Dear Lord, this particular trial in front of me right now is WAY too much to bear. I have got to have some relief. How can I be expected to keep functioning if this continues. It’s affecting me physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It’s downright awful. It has infiltrated…
Studying the Creation one day, I was quite overcome by the realization that the Lord spent FIVE of the SIX creative periods just making the earth beautiful. He didn’t have to create beauty. We could have come to a drab, gray, virtually lifeless world to work out our salvation. Plants and trees and animals are not…
I have found three litmus tests that are quite effective in guiding the activities at our home…and ultimately providing the very process by which sanctification takes place. The first is especially helpful and accessible to children and youth as it only requires a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. The other two take a little more…
Well, apparently, it is. I had at least three spectators today with another beating down the door to get in. I have given up on winning the Olympic 400m Freestyle. But maybe I could win the Olympic Blow Dry. I have the fan base. Of course, this isn’t a YouTube competition so you actually…
I had a strong impression not too long ago that instead of seeking for solutions and answers all of the time, we would do well to first seek for peace. Then, when we are in a calm and Godly state of mind, the solutions will come…maybe. But even if a solution isn’t readily apparent, at…
Stand Still 