I was complaining to God today as I was plowing snow in this rattletrap truck that is on its last leg, had no heat, and the windows down because of the crazy exhaust seeping in (and they kept fogging up), and I said, “God you know you could get me a new truck here. After…
winterwalk
Took a walk in the woods today. It was beautiful and peaceful. Thick soft snow falling. I always enjoy the opportunity to breathe the fresh clean cold air and try to capture some of the beauty around me. I am blessed to be so close to the woods and the crick! Click on the photo…
Roots
“You are a root. And only God knows what the flower will be. Don’t get lost castigating yourself for being a root. Without the root, the flower can never be. The flower is an expression of what now appears so lowly and unimportant, a waste. … Even though [you are] this ugly, ordinary-looking root, [you…
True Rebuilding
“The focus is on the rebuilding… not the tearing down. The old must be torn down for the new to be raised; to have a resurrection you must have a crucifixion, but God wastes nothing, not even the wrong we imagined into existence. In every building torn down, there is as much that remains that…