I flipped through last year’s planner. Well, look at that. There are those New Year’s Resolutions/goals that I diligently wrote down because, of course, if you want to be a purposeful person one should do that. This was probably the first time I had read through them since last January. Any success guru would tell […]

It started to set in during the busiest month for a pastor, December. The constant infections, the hacking cough, the flulike symptoms. After weeks of this seemingly morphing flu/brochitis/strep throat, friends recommended going to an urgent care to get an antibiotic to “kick this thing”. His wife called the naturopath because she wanted to get […]

Note:  I posted this a week ago, then the Lord burdened my heart with this passage and I took it down. Today our family participated in Elder’s Prayer and when they were praying for me I felt released to repost it. Isaiah 58:1 flooded my mind, along with Proverbs 31:8 “Cry aloud; do not hold […]

One night Trinity had been particularly sweet about paying people compliments.  I decided to jump on that and encourage that encouraging behavior.  While I washed dishes, she sat and we talked about how paying compliments is a way to use words that “are useful for building others up according to their needs so that it […]