Bible Reading
-
moreOne Habit that Radically Changes a Family
On Wednesday, June 08 th, 2011Words are always dessert. I was sixteen when I first I ate dinner at his house. And when the plates were cleaned, forks laid down, when it’d seem commonplace to nod thanks to the cook and push back the chairs, his family bowed their heads and his Father opened a Bible. It was thick and tattered, had a multitude of bookmarks sticking out from all the page...
-
moreFree Easter Devotional with Easter Passion Tree {Because Easter’s More Important than Christmas}
On Thursday, March 31 st, 2011We begin “The Trail to the Tree”… that set us free. Will you join us in these Easter Devotionals? Each of the 17 day journey towards Easter includes: The full te...
-
moreweekends are for His poetry
On Saturday, March 19 th, 2011:: May all your wanderings this weekend, kindest friends, see the poetry of His Hand everywhere the Creator God of the universe Who expresses more than one third of His Word to us in poetry who is the Word come to make us fully alive… :: :: :: :: {A very worthy listen today, from his devotions yesterday at Desiring God: John Piper on The Role of the ...
-
more
Soulcousitcs: How to Hear God in the Dark Spaces
On Wednesday, August 04 th, 2010She grabs my Mama’s guitar from the music room and she sits cross-legged and bare-footed on Mama’s back porch in the first light and she plucks songs from the strings and the air and her heart. Our small group sings. Channels Only, Blessed Master… The sun lays out in long, stretching rays through the maple tree in the soybean field off Mama’s back lawn. Annette strums...
-
moreweekends are for visiting
On Saturday, June 05 th, 2010In the quiet and the early, I hear the knock to come slip away and sit a long spell with Lover, and catch up with real Wisdom listen to the steady, sure voice of Truth, feel the tender smile of Father, hear the timbre of His voice, the beat of His one, passionate, never-failing heart, the Word reviving wanderers needing rest. Weekends are for Visiting and He’s knocking g...
-
morethe best read ever
On Wednesday, March 24 th, 2010You’d have thought I was reading The Dangerous Book for Boys or the like, the way he kept grinning at me as I read, looking over his shoulder and arching that eyebrow all mischevious at his brother all smirking. I think this as I read, that maybe this really is the original dangerous book for boys? The book boys have been reading for the last millennia or two, the one that gr...
-
more
The Unearthed Treasure That You Likely Could Dig Up in Your House
On Wednesday, January 20 th, 2010Whisper snow falls in slow out the window and here I’ve unearthed greater than Rosetta Stone, lost library of Nineveh, etched code of Hammurabi, the discovery of each that rewrote all the annals of the ages. Snow falls and I have heard and I have held the unaltered words of Almighty. God hath said. I turn pages that rewrite my life and I...
-
more
Three Ways to Hear God Today
On Wednesday, January 06 th, 2010It’s crazy, but I wait all day like Elijah on the mountain, wait for the loud and the blazing, the flash and fireball. The dog barks on the front porch. Shalom laughs at her daddy’s silly joke, rubs his nose with hers, repeats that same funny line in giggles all day. I lose a needed piece of mail, hunt for it like a hound. The house looks like it. Malakai comes in ...
-
moreFaith For Those In The Field
On Friday, November 27 th, 2009Ann?” He calls from the back door. “Can you can grab me The Word? On the stick?” His voice finds me at the table with books and children and pencils. From the window, I can see the tractor idling in the lane, the cap of it’s muffler bobbing. He’s headed to the field. “You left it in your cubby drawer?” I leave Kai to wrestle out the ...
-
more
Eating Bread: The One Habit that’s Most Changed Us
On Wednesday, November 04 th, 2009(You were asking? Several notes to the inbox with questions, so a revisitation on how our family quietly eats this book…) Words are always dessert. I was sixteen when I first I ate dinner at his house and when the plates were cleaned, forks laid down, when it’d seem commonplace to nod thanks to the cook and push back the chairs, his family bowed their heads and his ...
-
moreweekends are for the page turning
On Saturday, October 10 th, 2009He didn’t even notice me, he was so lost in the story. May you find a quiet spot this weekend, kind friends (even if you have to happily go out on a limb?), to rest and turn some good pages. And too, maybe more than a few moments with a Real Page Turner? About Grace and Healing and The True Hope found on a Tree…...
-
more
When You’re tired of the nothingness…
On Wednesday, August 05 th, 2009I lie on grass under maple skirts. He laughs and sun catches in his iris and something inside of me combusts. A child swings over us into blue. And I press myself into the earth’s crust and ask: Why isn’t there just nothing? Why is there something at all? The orb spins and my lungs exhale and child sways back to this part of the solar system and he takes my hand and...
