“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein I love that Einstein includes “play” in his formula for success. Play = work …
Read MoreBlazin’ a Trail
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Unknown. (Sometimes attributed to Emerson & McAlindon) Meridian State Park (Texas) is one of my favorite places on earth. It’s where I first understood the cross. …
Read MoreRoad Trip Rules
Summer is the season for road trips and so I thought this little post might be helpful – Or at least a little fun. I don’t know about you, but it seems like every time I load the car, I start feeling a little like …
Read MoreThe Mystery of God
“I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight. When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond the …
Read MorePrayer is Christmas
Christmas is the celebration of the incarnation. Jesus became a man and came to dwell on the earth as Emmanuel – “God with us.” In his book, “A Praying Life” Paul E. Miller says, “Prayer is a moment of incarnation – God with us.” ~ …
Read MoreUnconditional Love
Check out this quote: David Powlison says, “I’d like to propose that God’s love is much different and better than unconditional. Unconditional love, as most of us understand it, begins and ends with sympathy and empathy, with blanket acceptance. It accepts you as you are …
Read MoreQuote: Doing or Being?
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.” – Thomas Merton . …
Read MoreQuote: Lighthouse of Holiness
“It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. We are told to let our light shine, and if it does we won’t need to tell anybody it does. The light will be its own witness. Lighthouses don’t …
Read MoreSanctuary Bus
“The next time you enter the sanctuary, look around. Think of it as a big, beautiful bus…. Instead of waiting for the world to come to us … we’re going to get off the bus…. We’re going to look for anything that doesn’t look like …
Read MoreWhere am I Going?
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following …
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