“In Egypt they worked every day. As a slave, your worth and value came from how many bricks you produced. The bottom line: How productive and efficient you are. And from the moment these people are liberated, what this God keeps insisting is: Take one day to rest, to play, to be recreated. Take one…
Author: Joshua
Since 2001, Joshua has been writing his musings on life, liberty and the pursuit of godliness on this little blog. It's full of all kinds of fun little adventures and wisdom nuggets but mostly just the journey of a man through life.
The Breaking & The Building
In Masterpiece of the Wilderness, Deanna wrote “I break down to nothing that which I desire to rebuild.” The other day, I was driving down CR6 in Elkhart and noticed that a building that had been sitting vacant for a few years had been torn down and a new bank was going to occupy the…
Downcast
“Why so downcast, oh my soul?” asks the psalmist. It’s one of those introspective questions that you ask yourself when you are trying to figure out what is going on in your spirit. When your mind won’t slow its’ busy cacophony of thoughts and sensory input, and your heart is heavy with hope deferred, it…
Stand and Shine
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” – Anne Lamott Psalm 119:105 — His word is a light to the path ahead of me. Just as in the days of old, when they would attach small lamps to their sandals so that each step…