Incline your ear, Lord, for I am poor and needy. Be gracious to me, for to you I cry all day long. Same, David. Same. Especially lately, I am poor and needy. In one sense, it’s a beautifully freeing place…
less magic prayer, more relationship
It is not in hearing God or feeling cozy thoughts toward Him that constitutes friendship with Him, though I long believed it was. It’s not a magic prayer or formula, though most days I wish it was. It’s familiarity through…
what a wonder, our life with God
Closeness to God is what we were made for. Opportunities to know Him and be known by Him. A life of loving and being loved by Him. He is Creator, almighty and sovereign and holy. I am creature, humble and…
a golden calf of feelings
In his book Invitation to a Journey, Robert Mulholland writes, “God must be in our life who God is, unrestricted by the narrow limits of our thoughts and feelings.” In the faith spaces I grew up in, emotion was a…
may I be as attentive to God as Anna is to me
I decided something recently. I’m going to build a habit of continuously asking, What can I learn about God from this? Especially, this person in front of me or this circumstance I’m in. How did I arrive here, you may…
I went to a funeral today…
Like the Israelites in the unfamiliar and unsettling territory of the wilderness, grief is the same sort of path. It’s so new and shocking we are unsure how we will function, or provide for ourselves, or experience life in its…