Launch.
To spring from the place you are in with no control of where you will end.
More specifically, to be shot out of a cannon with no way to step back into self-doubt and regret.
That’s what ...
Explosions can be destructive or constructive.
We can explode ordnance by triggering the detonation cord. The ordnance goes boom, and there’s not much left to pick up or sort through.
However, an ...
It’s easy to want things too much.
Our church has 1000 members, but just down the road is one with 10,000. We glare each time we pass by and think, “What are we doing wrong?”
Or we raise ...
“Ah, God knows what I need.”
Have you heard that one? It seems logical, doesn’t it?
We serve an all-knowing Father, one who has his thumb in every pie. There’s nothing that transpires ...
How do you recognize friends?
You might see them hiking along a trail together, perhaps even ribbing one another about their perceived skill level or lack of it.
How about planning a movie ...
We are impressed by flashy love. The spray of red roses. The flamboyant kiss as we greet our spouse. Beautiful cards on each and every occasion.
Yet flashy love is sometimes just that, a flash of ...
Wax is a must-have for furniture restoration.
We can reglue joints, sand and strip the top, and even replace broken legs. Yet, some cracks won’t return to their original position no matter how ...
Visit a cook’s kitchen.
You can picture it. A scattering of bowls. Measuring cups and spoons, perhaps a roll of plastic wrap and a bowl of eggshells.
A hand towel is crumpled to the side, and the ...
What trips you up in life?
What do you stumble over that you never seem to see coming?
What are the stones that bite into your feet when you try to walk the path that God has set before ...
There is a common child’s toy that teaches shape recognition and eye-hand coordination. We give the young’un a board with various openings cut into it, and we have her match blocks, or ...
Sometimes we have to take one on the chin for the little guy.
What does that mean, and who is the little guy? In this case, we’re talking about the inexperienced person, the underachiever, the one ...
Make no mistake about it, we all make mistakes.
We say the wrong thing in the heat of the moment. Or choose a path we know God doesn’t approve, yet there we are anyway.
Lamentations 3:22-24 (NIV) ...
Think back to your childhood. Imagine being corrected by a parent for perhaps the tenth time for something.
You don’t see the harm, as it feels innocent to you. Perhaps it’s as innocuous as not ...
