Silent my soul.
Let my desire be you in all things.
God silent my soul to desire
in nothing but you,
not in passing things.
Lord, grant me my desire.
Silent My Soul ...
A prominent pastor has made apparently a purposefully provocative tweet.
His tweet was insensitive.
At best oversimplification.
At worst legalism.
Either way he deserves grace.
His comment deserves gentle rebuttal.
Silent Parenting ...
More often than not I am coming to believe that I teach my children more by what I don’t say verbally. My actions say as much or more than words.
When the wind seems dry,
no fresh water falls from the sky,
little voices cry searching for anyone there,
voices pry calling though celestial air,
Their silent grace greets despair.
Every once in a while,
in our digital age of
instant coffee, instant entertainment,
instant communication,
artificial sanctification,
artificial living,
reality breaks in.
Networks disconnect.
Silence begins.
God finds you.
There are so many things that I want to say.
The words are in my head but I can’t get them out.
I used to ask God why. Until Proverbs 16:1.
Identifying ourselves and others is terribly important to us.
We identify in part by our labels.
Labels are insufficient to our relationships.
My great desire is to sojourn with Jesus.
Upon my liar’s chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here.
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Our little girl has yet turn two,
now has a purple room,
we began to paint before we moved,
but like much finished it only
after a month
or two.
purposeful provocative tweets ...
Twitter is such a limited medium.
Reducing complex ideas to a 140 character “tweet” can even for the best be tough. Many of us often want that re-tweetable provocative tweet. Read More »