Living Our Messy Lives
Life gets messy. We can plan and organize, but things always seem to get in the way. I’ve always said, “if you want to make God laugh, just make plans.” Of course, we make plans anyway. We need to or otherwise, we drift. The only thing worse than making plans that have to be changed […]
Letting Go of Control; The Art of Surrender
When is enough, enough? We all have a tendency to get caught up in wanting more and more of something in our lives. The way we crave that thing becomes a vicious cycle and soon its almost impossible to have enough; we’ve become addicted. In last week’s blog and Reviving Your Soul (Now Longing for More) show, we talked about […]
The Search for Enough
We are all created for a purpose. Some of us spend our whole lives looking for that purpose. We have this longing inside of us that keeps drawing us closer and closer to it. We strive to find it and we take one major step or reach a life goal and it feels good. But […]
Coming Home to a Place I’d Never Been Before
I’d sung along to these words hundreds of times, “He was born in the summer of his 27 year, coming home to a place he’d never been before…” but for some reason this time riding across the wide-open prairie and reflecting on my life, it was different. Finding a place that feels like home, even […]
The Best Decision…
Some things in life are a lot like bubbles to a toddler. We pursue them. We chase after them. We dream about how wonderful it will be when we finally get them. And then, just when it seems it is coming our way, it bursts, right before our eyes. That’s the way it happened for […]
Made to Thrive…
I love to start my Sunday mornings with our Sonrise service on the radio. It’s just a quick 20-minute service with some scripture, a short message, and music. I usually drift in and out of sleep as I listen and this week was no different. Fortunately, I was awake when the song Thrive by Casting […]