Category: Scripture Meditations
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Prone to Wander
It’s amazing how we can travel from mountaintop to valley so quickly. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced this, but I do regularly. I’ll spend some time in prayer, and I’ll be brimming over with love for God and man. Then I stub my toe, and the words out of my mouth are pretend-profanity,…
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When He’s Slow
I resonate deeply with Inigo Montoya. (Those who haven’t seen the movie, just skip to the last sentence of this paragraph. Or go watch it. That’s the better option.) Not in his desire for the vengeance of his father or his expertise in fencing. None of the cool stuff. Just in the line he gives…
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Choices
Habits. I think most of us have a few we’re proud of and a few we’d rather not discuss. I’ve got a strong exercise habit that I’m pretty proud of. And I’ve got a lot of food habits that I wish I could go back and rewrite all my behavior for the last 10 years…
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Looking Up and Out
Humility. It’s a weird word in today’s culture. It doesn’t come up often. Usually we use it when we feel like someone is being modest. If I tell someone, “That clarinet solo sounded great!” and they say, “Oh, it was so easy. And actually, I messed up twice,” that statement might be called humility. Humility,…
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God Remembered
I do not have a great memory. My brain is a sieve. I memorize quickly, and, just about as quickly, I forget. I only survive as a semi-competent adult because I write everything down, but I still double-book myself regularly. God, I know, is the opposite of me with that whole omniscient thing going on.…
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Love. Just Love. That’s All.
I want to live a good life, Lord.I want to pour myself out for You.I want to serve You faithfully. I want to make a difference for Your name.I want to show You,Your goodness,Your love,Your beauty, Your light,In a world that’s so often evil, hateful, ugly, and dark.What can I do,God,To make a difference for…
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From Mara to Naomi
Sometimes, it’s hard to see God working. I live through each day, and I try to tell my kids about Him. I pray for unsaved friends. I try to show His love and kindness. I try to abide in the vine of Jesus. I try to love. But what’s He really doing? All these tasks…
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The Grossest Book in the Bible
It’s the middle schooler’s treasure trove of blood-and-guts Bible stories. You’ve got Ehud killing the king so fat that his blubber swallows up the sword. You’ve got Samson, the man who can take on 1,000 single-handed. You’ve got Cisera’s death by means of Jael’s tent peg. The concubine’s death by sexual and physical abuse followed…
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My Confidence
Self-confidence.It’s one of those thingsOur culture constantly tells us we needs buckets of.”You’re enough.””You’re doing great.””You’re so awesome.””You’re a good mom,Wife,Friend.”The message of the media, And the message of my friends,And every time I hear it,It stabs me.Because I know I’m not.I see my failings every day. I expect failure from myselfFar more than success.I…
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The Winter of Our Despair
I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately, but it’s winter out there. Here in the Midwest, we’ve been having some brutally cold temperatures. I kinda hate winter. I don’t like the cold. I don’t like all the extra clothes. I don’t like snow/sludge/ice driving. I don’t like the melted-snow soggy. I don’t like how, when…
Soul Happy in the Lord 