Daily observations about following Jesus
Going through a stack of paper at work revealed a proposal from a possible vendor. I remembered meeting the guy. He was nice – but his attitude turned me off a bit. He seemed fairly proud and may not have been a good listener. He didn’t really come across as understanding that I might know as […]
Read More…A friend is considering a new life direction – a change of career. She’s responding to a tug in her heart to use the gift of compassion that God has given her. She already uses it in her day-to-day life, but she wants to share that gift more deliberately. So I reflected on my own […]
Read More…She lived by prayer. Every surface of her apartment walls was covered with photos of people that she prayed for. Including me. My mom was a very faithful pray-er. She kept written journals to see how God answered prayer. After she died, I talked with her pastor, and he jokingly said, “There has been an […]
Read More…Entering a new year is a good time to take stock. Somehow this change of the last digit of the date gives us the feeling of having a fresh start. Self-analysis is a practice some find easy and others find hard. I’m more at the end of the spectrum where it’s a challenging exercise. As […]
Read More…“And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?” -Jesus, in Matthew 7. I keep fighting a war with myself over being judgmental. I’ll discover that someone I know does one of those things that drives me crazy, and that helps me to accept others that […]
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