Jerry and I love to roam back roads, looking for herons and other wildlife, enjoying God's creation. Sometimes, though, we'd get to the end of a little gravel road, at a creek or the end of a county. Even though there'd been no sign to warn us, we'd run right into a dead end. When …
Category Archives: Spiritual Formation
The Canopy Awaits
As the funeral procession turned the corner, across the early spring field, I saw the blue canopy. Drawing nearer the little cemetery among the farms, I though about my own journey to that waiting canopy. When God calls me home, will I have done all his will? I particularly thought about how I’d feel if …
Sometimes Satan Wins
Sometimes Satan wins. When Adam and Eve chose the apple, Satan won the right to fight. But his victories are small, his triumph is temporary and in the midst of the battles, we are borne up on the love of Papa-God. In eternal perspective, his wins are small and transient, though they may last a …