will you pick me?
Have you ever felt like you are standing with your hand waving in the air, 'pick me, pick me?' Maybe as adults we don't really do that but I think we all have that desire to be picked. Chosen. We ask: Pick me for the job. Pick me because I have something valuable to...
mirror mirror
Mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all.... The face looking back at me runs through the litany of comments.... fat ugly selfish prideful wounded graceless blunt tactless opinionated dominating controlling manipulative jealous this list could grow and...
What’s in a name?
Is it our name that makes us who we are or who we are that marks us with our identity? How many feuds have been won and lost simply over a name: The McCoys and Hatfields, The War of the Roses, or The MacDonalds and the Campbells. If you were born a Campbell you were...
commitment vs surrender
Which does the Lord want? Does he want my commitment or does he want my surrender? What exactly do these two words mean? I tell myself that I need to be more committed to spending time with the Lord. I need to be committed to loving people and serving others. But it...
quiet growth
I have been pondering growth a lot lately. It is probably due to this conference I have been asked to participate in that has me thinking about soil and seeds and water and nutrients. I watched my babies grow and celebrated each milestone and worried over each...
my rest
Resting is one of the most difficult thing for me to do. I usually have a book in hand, design articles to peruse, photography tutorials to practice, or talking to whoever is nearby. If I actually rest, where I close my eyes and still my body and quiet my mind, I last...
a new you
There is something about a new year, whether it be a new school year or the turning of a calendar page to a new month, that can fill us with anticipation and excitement and plans. I know myself well and know that it is futile to make those resolutions that I am sure...
he has taken away my reproach
Being misunderstood is a part of this life. A difficult reality, but a reality nonetheless. In our current society, I have found that children are considered a blessing if you have the requisite one or two and then done, but the responses to much more than that can be...
how can it be?
This time of year fills me with a sense of awe and wonder. It's the time of year that I choose to deeply ponder the coming of Christ in flesh. The reminders are all around me; the house is decorated for the month long 'birthday party'. The city streets in our rural...
dear worship leader
Last week I wrote a letter to all the worshipers of the Lord everywhere. This week I write a letter to all my fellow worship leaders who are leading God's people in worship week after week. Dear Worship Leader, You are leading so you must serve. God has placed you in...
dear worshiper
Dear Worshiper, We are all worshipers, whether we realize it or not, we all worship something or someone. We were designed that way, and we will fill our spirit's with something or someone until we surrender to the living God. Worship is all about relationship. It's...
where is hope?
2 Corinthians 1:9-10: ‘Indeed in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he...