understanding – 300 words a day

taking sides

I don’t like sides. I don’t like having to decide which team to be on. I don’t like being forced to be with one group or the other. That’s why I want to avoid Matthew 13: 11-17. Because I am working our way through Matthew, writing 300 words a day about following Jesus, I consider […]

Jesus knows what it is like

“Every day, say to yourself, ‘Jesus knows what it’s like to be a mom.’” That is the second of five doable actions that came out of a sermon on Titus 2:11-14. One of the things that often stops us in prayer and belief is that we think that God can’t understand us. And I understand […]

follower first

I was driving to a church. A family was inside. And a casket. And the body of a young woman. And her three children. And her husband of ten years. I was crying. I hadn’t cried much for a few days, since Saturday night when we heard she died. I mean, I had some, but […]