Devotional

  • Surrender: What Do We Carry? Part 2

    Surrender: What Do We Carry? Part 2

    I’ve resisted a bit (ok – a lot – still resisting to certain degrees) with what I’m about to write.  I resisted for a year the word that has become my word for 2025 – that is not to say I’ve fully accepted it, but I’ve acknowledged that it is my word: Surrender.  Last…

  • On Pride and the Chisel

    On Pride and the Chisel

    The chisel. Merriam-Webster defines it as “a metal tool with a flat, sharp end that is used to cut and shape a solid material (such as stone, wood, or metal)”. The chisel. God defines it as the tool He uses to break the hardened, stone-cold-dead parts off of His people, in order to refine us and make us…

  • Footprints: What Do You Carry? Part 1

    Footprints: What Do You Carry? Part 1

    I have been thinking a lot about that poem ‘Footprints in the Sand,’ specifically those last few lines where it says; “When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.” Me being me, I couldn’t help but compare it to when the boys and I were at the…

  • What Does Absolute Surrender to Jesus Look Like?

    What Does Absolute Surrender to Jesus Look Like?

    Sometimes the smallest things can trigger the biggest spiritual revelations… well, for me, at least. This is how God talks to me. I call them GODSLAPS – where I’m just going along, minding my own business when BAM!…something knocks me upside the head with its weighty Biblical truth. The name makes it sound like…

  • Scars

    Scars

    This tree is in my backyard. I can see it from every window at the back of my house. It has the prettiest white flowers in the spring. Yet it kind of fades into the background during the other seasons, but it has always stuck out to me. I’m not sure why. I think…

  • Calmer Waters – A Poem

    Calmer Waters – A Poem

    It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but I was inspired this morning after a conversation with a friend: Calmer Waters I watched as they got caught up in the current Their bright colors swirling and spinning in the fluxes and flows Their dance only disrupted amongst the rocks and white caps…

  • Seasons on the Banks: the Lesson in the Falls

    The other day, I had a rare holiday off from work alone. I decided to use this time to assuage some wanderlust in me and ventured out to the local state park, which features a large waterfall, to do some hiking and enjoy the autumn season. Since it was about midday on a weekday,…