SEAN’S WHITE COAT CEREMONY From the beginning, Sean, when you were a twinkle in the whole family’s eye, a beautiful expectant image of you began to grow, especially in your grandmother’s mind of what an amazing grandchild you were going …
UNTIL WE SURRENDER Until we surrender to God, not surrender because of His mighty power and terrible swift sword but because we know there’s no contest there, we would only be cowed before Him. True, sweet, divine surrender comes only …
THE ROYAL ESTATE OF GOD Without a weapon, with no defense, the pure, perfect, presence of the incomprehensible, royal estate of God stands immortal and open revealing all truth, joy, trust, and wonder of the Holy of Holies. It is …
EVEN DARWIN IS SHAKING HIS HEAD I’ve been following some scientific discussions online about the shortcomings of Darwin’s theory of evolution that makes the theory compared to present-day knowledge on the subject, look like first-grade arithmetic compared to advanced Calculous, …
WHEN LOVE REALIZES YOU When you realize what love is, nothing else will do, but then, when you really, realize what love is everything will do because God is love, and also me and you. Jack
A HOUND DOG NAMED ELVIS I was sitting under the edge of my garage doorway this morning doctoring my athlete’s foot with a new spray advertised to wipe out any athlete’s foot problem on earth, well I’ll be the judge …
SORROW AND SUFFERING Sorrow and suffering have the miraculous potential to create great fields of spiritual growth in us if we will allow Christ to help us tear out the hardened walls and bitter weeds of fear from around our …
CHANGE YOUR WORLD Mattie was absentmindedly digging for money in her purse. She was muttering something about hating the Dollar Store, feeling like warmed-over death, and stopped dead still when she reached the conveyer belt at the end of the …
REAL LOVE Love is not a payoff or a payback; real love is paid in full. Jack
FRUSTRATE THE DEVIL (God listens to everyone) The Devil allowed himself to get very upset and angry one day and went out looking for God and found Him relaxing high on the very top of the Rocky Mountains; lovingly watching …