STANDING IN THE WINDS OF CHANGE

A pruning of the assumptions we thought we would carry into the future is taking place. Some are wasting their sorrow over the pruning because they do not understand its purpose. In the coming days, we will see the “why” for the removal of our assumptions....

STRENGTHENING OUR CORE

Every morning I do an exercise called “The Plank.” It works my body from head to toe. Its most important benefit is what it does to my core. To be strong at the core of our body affects the immediate areas of muscle and skeletal structure, but its most important...

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

For the last few months, I have been having dreams within dreams. Last night I had several. The initial dream was a portal that led me to the discovery of a second dream contained within the first. In the first dream, I had the ability to consciously interact with the...

LOOKING AT THE STUMP

When great sorrow occurs and what we love is cut down, in that place of deep and unimagined sorrow, hope is always present waiting to be revealed. At first, hope is difficult to see while we stand together before the stump of someone or something that was once alive...

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS

It’s nothing new that people would call evil good and good evil or that something known throughout the history of the Church as darkness would now be celebrated as light. In some circles of faith, it might even be considered unloving to define something as evil...

The Witness of Rest

One of the expressions of our faith that tells the world we are followers of Jesus Christ is our ability to rest in the midst of turmoil. Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). Finding that rest...