This morning’s rising was...strange. I woke up aware my body was uncomfortably warm and peeled back the covers. The early-ness of 2:20 am had me negotiating a return to sleep, even though I already had a lot running through my head, and I had a desire to put thoughts to paper to see where God would take me this morning. After an Encountering Peace meditation – and still being awake – I opened my Bible to see what He wanted to say. I opened to a divot in the side of the pages

I woke up this morning, almost startled out of sleep at 4 am, when my mind drifted from a lazy dream wandering around my consciousness, to a bright white title page with bold print declaring a chapter heading: "Ax Men". I didn’t get to see any text with it as I suddenly bolted awake, but I knew what it meant as my eyes opened in the darkness of my room. Ax Men are those men in our lives that are very precious gifts in our lives. They are the dragon slayers. They are the men w

The other day, I finally put to “blog paper” the realization that we need to “strengthen our feeble knees” and ski, despite the ruts of our emotional, traumatic, damaged past and I shared the story of my first experience with skiing and being towed up the hill holding for dear life onto a tow rope…skis crossing and getting tangled in the ruts formed by so many people’s previous trips up that particular area on the slope and how so many of us kept falling – and getting frustra

This morning I woke up a couple times, drifting back to sleep and then becoming aware of a song… and in the almost fully awake, the song changed... and I smiled. The tempo was a big shift, and then I started focusing on the words and let out a contented sigh, relaxing into the rest and peace that can seem so elusive during the busyness of the daytime. The first song was drumming and marching through my head, not unpleasantly, just a more active beat: “But I would walk five h

The past few days have been a fountain of opportunities for me to recall and recount situations in my life that have taught (and re-taught) me important lessons that, if I keep focused on the Teacher ☺, I will have a better time navigating the tough spots. Yesterday included one of those situations that would have gone smoother had I kept this in mind! Thankfully, because I had just shared this childhood experience earlier in the day, am in the middle of reading a book on con