Pain and Purpose

January 31, 2008 This month is gone.  Time continues its march onward.  One day bleeds into another.  No clear direction.  No space in time where things are normal.  I wait.  What can God do through time and its passing? Long waits shift my attention to quieter, peaceful thoughts until she speaks.  Then all feeling in … Read more

Straight to the Point

I find that I am blunt about many things. I think my family and friends would agree. The word ‘non-confrontational’ has been bantered about in the family but not in the same sentence with my name. There are times I’ve been told I’m being judgmental, and yes, I do admit to sounding that way on … Read more

A Challenge from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The following words came from an email devotional that I received from Michael Card, the musician, a few years ago.    “While I was at Western Kentucky University, Eberhard Bethge, the great biographer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, shared a story with us. Bonhoeffer was discipling a group of young men in a secret underground seminary during … Read more