Lots of things happen in this life.  Lots of words are spoken by lots of people.  Lots of decisions are made that affect us.  Lots of media sound-bytes clutter the airwaves.  Lots of predictions about the future are made. Lots of hopes and dreams fulfilled or...

A holiday doesn't automatically guarantee rest. It's convenient and easy to tell ourselves that a change of scenery, a change of pace, or a change of country will give us rest, but the problem with going on holiday is that you take yourself with you. If your soul...

 When you are good at something it often feels very normal to you. Especially when you have put in enough hours to become really good at it. What to other people seems amazing, usually feels very ordinary to the person doing...

People are afraid - but what comes out of their mouths often doesn't sound like fear; It sounds more like anger, or frustration, or bitterness, or bravado. But no matter the content of the words, the force behind those words is often fear. Whether people are...

I was about to jump in with both feet when someone stepped in and gave me some extra information that changed everything. I was about to speak out of frustration when someone encouraged me to take a gentler tone. I was about to make a decision when someone spoke up...

If you listen to the coffee-shop conversations, the political debates, the social-media arguments, and the news headlines, you can hear a kind of hopelessness in our world. People have lost their confidence in tomorrow. They have lost the sense that our world could...

We are invited to live in a bigger story. But to live in that bigger story we must become bigger people.  The smaller story is always easier: Take the path of least resistance. Do what you've always done. Stick with what you know. Medicate the pain. Bury your head in...

"If only I had..." Fill in the blank for yourself. If only I had... tried harder, said less, said something, read more books, made more friends, been bolder, prayed regularly... The 'if only I had' list is long and growing in most people's lives. Looking back has...

You can worry, fret, wonder, imagine, and try to figure out what comes next. Or you can rest in the knowledge that God knows what comes next. He’ll let you know when you need to know. You can strive, strain, push, pull, and try to force something into being. Or you...