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S.O.P.

What is the S.O.P.? Standard Operating Procedures. What are they for us? What is the standard that all of life is to hing upon and work from? Well that depends on your focus and where you come from. It could depend on your upbringing, or your training as a child/young adult. Where are you fromContinue reading “S.O.P.”

What is the Problem?

Ask my daughters, this is one of my favorite phrases! We always want to know what is wrong so we can fix it. If we know what the problem is than we can figure out a way to make the problem go away. This is really the way we work in society now. If somethingContinue reading “What is the Problem?”

Free From God

Is there a place one can go to be free from God? One of my devotions for today is titled A Vacuum of Absence. It spoke about creation and how creation was started by God’s word, but this is not the end of God’s involvement. God spoke the world into being, but God continues toContinue reading “Free From God”

Step out of the boat…

I know a lot of people who are faithful people. A lot of people who have faith in God to be there and protect them. Even if you do not have faith in God, you have faith in someone, a spouse, a parent, a friend. There is probably someone in your life you know youContinue reading “Step out of the boat…”

Ear to hear – Eye to see

I wonder as we begin this second week of Lent about our repenting and turning towards the Lord. We live in these 40 days the way we think God has called us to live. We sacrifice and give up chocolate or pop, but is that really what God has called us to? These 40 daysContinue reading “Ear to hear – Eye to see”

What’s your addiction?

What is it that consumes your attention? What is it that consumes your resources? What is it that consumes your life? Many of us think of addictions as bad things. Addictions are things we need to detox from, they are habits to break. Which is true for most addictions, but… Did you know Joshua wasContinue reading “What’s your addiction?”

20/20 Spiritual Vision

I have worn glasses as long as I can remember. I did wear contacts for a while, but I have given that up, and now just wear the glasses. Without them I can not see everything clearly. Images are fuzzy, and if I am not close enough to things I can not read them. SomeContinue reading “20/20 Spiritual Vision”

Stumbling Block

Have you ever been walking down the road and tripped over something? Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians says, “we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles,” The cross of Christ is a stumbling block and folly. Stumbling blocks are things that impede our progress orContinue reading “Stumbling Block”

Walk on Water

Now we all now it is not physically possible to walk on water. It goes completely against the laws of Physics to walk on water. If you do not know how to swim, and the water is deeper than your head, then you are going to sink. Yet in the 14th chapter of the gospelContinue reading “Walk on Water”

If you are?

This is the first Sunday in Lent. I love the readings for this Sunday, especially the gospel. In today’s reading we get the story of Jesus being driven out into the wilderness. The place where people did not usually go, because wild animals lived there and there were no provisions, no food, probably very littleContinue reading “If you are?”