Storm Breaker

Well, this past week was a tough one. Have you ever had a week like that? I did my best to muscle through, but it felt like there were obstacles in my way no matter what path I took.

I haven’t been feeling well, and an upcoming surgery that would make me feel good again got postponed due to scheduling issues with the surgical facility. I’ve been in a lot of pain, and for the past several days I had been doing a countdown in my head, “Ten more days, that’s all. I can do anyt

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Directness in Prayer

“O Lord my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.” — Psalm 30:2, (NASB1995)

It’s remarkable how the Scriptures teem with life—how such fullness of meaning can emerge from the simplest of words. Psalm 30:2 is made up entirely of one-syllable words, yet together they form a living picture of God’s goodness and the tender care He gives to each of us.

David’s line is simple, but its implications are profound: “I cried to You… and You healed me.” What a declaration—and

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Taking Down The Garden

This morning, I completed one of my critical fall tasks. I call it “taking down the garden,” and it entails a lot of cutting down plants, pulling up weeds, finding the last salvageable cucumber of the season, and grabbing as many of the red tomatoes as possible to throw over the fence for the neighbor’s chickens and ducks. (Don’t give them green ones, the internet says they are bad for them.)

As I worked, I first thought about how the Lord had blessed us with a great harves

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God's Eternal Love and Faithfulness

(NIV) is a song that reaches into the marrow of our faith. It begins with a declaration that has no expiration date: “I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations” (v. 1). From the opening line, we are drawn into a vision that is both sweeping and personal—God’s steadfast love and unshakable faithfulness, set like pillars that hold up the universe.What strikes me most in this psalm is the w...