The pilgrim life leads us to different places, intersects into the lives of others, can be transient and full of gains and losses. These detours are stories to be shared.
It’s the Final Countdown This is the song my family plays as we turn into our neighborhood after a long journey. We’ve come to the end of our travels and rock our way into the final stretch. It’s motivating, exciting, and can be played really loud in the car. It’s the best bookmark to any great adventure. In Michigan we had a long, gray and depressingly cold winter. I’ll take birds chirping at 5 a.m.…
Do you collect items in your travels and adventures? Most of us do. My friend Lisa collects something special that I think you might be collecting too without realizing.
Life is full of spaces we rather ignore and moments that test our patience. What if we stopped to take notice and chose to embrace the annoyances?
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end[…]I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3:11 & 14 Thailand’s night markets teem with tourists from around the globe all in search…
Sometimes the lessons we learn as a child don’t begin to make sense until we experience more of life and mature. Today’s blog unfolded in that way for me, so bear with me in what might seem like a tangent. Our church recently asked us to help encourage an effort to reach out to our surrounding community. However, in the back of my mind, I kept thinking, “How can we go into the community…
