Journals
ASSEMBLING OURSELVES TOGETHER
I recently heard this in meditation: ‘You should try to assemble yourself together before you assemble yourself together with others.’ Meditation is certainly a way […]
THE AMERICAN FOREST
John Muir (1838-1914) naturalist, conservationist and author wrote: “The forest of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for […]
A GREAT STORY
I am not much of a moviegoer or TV person but I have seen enough (and now especially previews and commercials) to have a pretty […]
PLAY FAIR & WORK HARD
Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author wrote: Play Fair & Work Hard “Two of the building blocks of a resilient society.And the opposite of the lazy […]
GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS
Jerry Bridges (1929-2016) author and a leader of The Navigators (a discipleship organization) wrote: “Your worst day is never so bad that you are beyond […]
SUFFERING AND JOY
As a child I was taught that following Christ is difficult, full of tribulation, suffering, scratching and clawing and barely making it…if we make it. […]
GETTING OUR ACT TOGETHER
I don’t believe the ‘act’ will get together until we get ourselves together. The act can’t change until we do. It is getting us together […]
PAPER TOWEL CHURCH
I was recently reading some of my personal journal notes and found this one from April 2023 called the Paper Towel Church. It was a […]