A Bubble of Protection
Top o’ the morning to ya! As you may have heard, today’s St. Paddy’s day, so I figured I’d share a prayer that I’ve used for years when...
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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Jan 11, 2017
- 5 min
It’s a Disaster but Everything’s Perfect. I Guess
So, two weeks ago today I fell on an icy driveway and broke my ankle. It was classic; my foot started to slip on the ice, hit dry gravel...
- Nov 24, 2016
- 1 min
A Thanksgiving Blessing
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love...
- May 28, 2015
- 5 min
Explaining God to a Child
A lot of Christians have a strong desire to ensure that their children follow them in the faith. And to that end, a great deal of energy...
- May 4, 2015
- 4 min
Why You Should Always, Always, Always Listen to Your Heart
Prior to that, it was believed that the seat of thought, emotion and will was the heart. Which actually makes sense because if you’ve...
- Jan 23, 2015
- 1 min
The Spirit In You Knows the Truth
That hopeful feeling you experience when someone tells you that God is better than you’ve been taught is the Holy Spirit moving. I know a...
- Jan 18, 2015
- 3 min
The Mystery of Faith
“Go that way! Towards the sun.” I always wondered about faith. Evangelicals say that you have to choose to have it. Calvinists say that...
- May 6, 2014
- 4 min
Prayers of Faith
Earlier this year, I did a series of posts on why God doesn’t answer prayers. My reason for writing the posts was to push back against...
- Apr 23, 2014
- 7 min
Fighting God
If you are a Christian who takes the bible seriously, there will often come a point where you feel hamstrung by the bible. You may be...
- Apr 20, 2014
- 2 min
A Prayer for Easter Morning
We come to you today as a family of the broken, the humbled, the weak and the victorious. We have walked down dark paths and through dark...
- Apr 3, 2014
- 1 min
Prayer of St. Francis
Just some old timey religion for your Thursday morning! #christianity #prayer #christianspirituality #spirituality #Stfrancis #religion
- Mar 31, 2014
- 1 min
It’s OK To Say . . .
It’s OK to say to God, “I don’t know how to do what you’re asking me to do. I don’t know how to be loving or kind or patient or...
- Jan 21, 2014
- 7 min
Meditate Like Jesus
What if I told you that I held the secret to meditating like Jesus did? And that I have been practicing it with amazing results for 15...
- Dec 6, 2013
- 2 min
The Tree, The Fish and The Light
Once upon a time, in the deep recesses of time on this planet, there was some slime. Or maybe it was bacteria. Slimey bacteria? I don’t...
- Nov 25, 2013
- 3 min
Take Courage
I think courage is a terribly underappreciated virtue. There’s a tendency to see courage as something a soldier or a superhero needs to...
- Nov 6, 2013
- 1 min
A Prayer for Our Journey by H. Nouwen
Dear Lord, I will remain restless, tense, and dissatisfied until I can be totally at peace in your house. But I am still on the road,...
- Nov 5, 2013
- 2 min
What God Told Me Yesterday
“I want you to know I never believed the things people said about you. Those people who said they could see better than you could what...
- Nov 2, 2013
- 4 min
The Most Important Reason for Unanswered Prayers
God often does not answer my prayers because he knows me. He knows that if he allowed me to enjoy material ease, plenty of affirmation...
- Nov 1, 2013
- 3 min
People Are People
This week we’ve been looking at common reasons that God doesn’t answer our prayers. Today we’ll look at the problem of people. As in...
- Oct 30, 2013
- 5 min
Reality is Reality
Especially when I was younger, I was prone to saying prayers that amounted to “God, please don’t let reality be reality.’ I would not...
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