SHAKY BUT THRILLED
SHAKY BUT THRILLED Cheap is a flowery word for the hotel I woke up in that Sunday morning somewhere in downtown Atlanta, Georgia and my head was a very painful place to try to organize my thoughts in for the …
TOUCHING GOD???
TOUCHING GOD??? WE CAN NOT TOUCH GOD BUT GOD TOUCHES US: This thought came to me yesterday and I thought, YES, that’s a very interesting thought. So, I was going to write about it. However, the more I thought about …
WHY I GAVE UP MY LIFE OF “POWER”
WHY I GAVE UP MY LIFE OF “POWER” If I ruled the world everything would be done my way. NOT!! I would lose my power to all the people helping me enforce my rules. Clearly, power is just an idea …
NO MORE PIZZA PLEASE
NO MORE PIZZA PLEASE I knew when I headed east on Interstate four from Albuquerque that my trip was in reality over; now I just had to get home. I had no other places I wanted to visit or even …
LIFE, TRAGEDY, AND SURVIVAL
LIFE, TRAGEDY, and SURVIVAL Life pours forth out of every moment, every tick of the clock, every beat of our hearts and we are, for the most part, powerless over what comes next, but what we do have power over …
FORGIVENESS
FORGIVENESS When we’re trying to find it in our hearts to forgive a person or situation for hurting us, hurting our feelings, we need to remember that these challenges to our maturity and our spirituality are actually the CHRIST presenting …
EL RITO
EL RITO It’s only about 80 miles from Albuquerque to El Rito, New Mexico, but it took six rides and a lot of walking to find this tiny, unincorporated little town. The country is rugged up in the foothills of …
TRUE VALUE
TRUE VALUE Kindness, humility, and love are the cheapest commodities on earth and yet you can’t buy a nickel’s worth with all the gold on Earth, but when you possess kindness, humility, and love you will have a treasure worth …
THE PRESENCE
THE PRESENCE Illusions are the soil in which our earthly life seems to grow as we water them with our tears and feed them our dreams, but only the holy light of God can transform their seeds into the reality …
EUGENE OR EL RITO
EUGENE OR EL RITO The world felt a little hollow and empty as I crossed the road to go to work and watched John’s truck disappear down the highway, but my job and the happy little crew of migrant workers …