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…

“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…

“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…

Jesus got it all wrong. Wasn’t He was supposed to come as a king? That’s what everyone was taught. They were taught that Someone was coming to rescue them from the oppression of their enemies; out from under the thumb of the Roman Empire. He comes to the earth with neither pomp nor grandeur. Born…