I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father. John 15:15, NET A friend, reared in another country, grew up with servants. We were traveling together to a conference …
Author Archives: Karen
Defining Reality
Max DePree writes "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." We are all leaders, most especially of ourselves. We ponder the raw sense data we receive in light of how we understand reality. I sit, early on a Sunday morning, at the computer near an open window, feeling the coolness on my …
Showing, not Telling
You are good and you do good. Psalm 119:68 (Net) In every situation, God chooses good. Do we always see the goodness? Do we understand the forces at work? Do we grasp, even, what "good" means? I know I don’t. But thirty-four years of walking with him has convinced me of his goodness. When I …