But God…those are the two words penned this morning on the handout containing the lyrics to the music for the Easter service. Digging a pen out of the bottom of my purse, trying to get the ink to flow before I forgot the words that Eugene shared from Ephesians 2:4, I hastily scribbled But God…The …
Category: Flourishing
16th Second
After 30 years in education, I would admit that I’ve heard my fair share of commencement speeches—some memorable, others not. There is often an underlying theme of something along the lines of “go out and conquer the world.” I even ask, that during a life calling assignment, my students listen to an excerpt from a …
Asking Over Assuming
Recently, I was the beneficiary of several intriguing insights while engaging in a Walk and Talk with Makayla, one of which relates to how we both delight when an author uses a phrase that captures a concept we’ve been mulling over, especially when we have been struggling to articulate it in a specific way. Even …
Grumbling to Grateful
Except for some disappointment that one area of my life did not really turn out as I had once dreamed, I would mostly describe myself as an optimistic, hopeful, glass-half-full type of person. However, without a clear explanation as to what has changed in the last few years, I’m experiencing a bit of a struggle …
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Control-Alt-Delete might be a meaningless and random piecing together of computer keys for the younger generations accustomed to typing on a screen rather than a keyboard, but for those of us Gen Xers, CTRL+ALT+DEL was a desperate measure to reboot our computers. This “soft reboot” was designed by an IBM engineer as an internal way …
Baptized Ambition
Have you ever contemplated if what you are pursuing in life is truly part of God’s plan or just Baptized Ambition? As I mentioned in How to Die, I’m grappling with some Big Questions in this Season of Life where I find myself in a state of transition. One moment what I examine communicates the …
Intrusive Thoughts
You’re not even worth a slice of pizza, Julie! Believe it or not, that thought played through my mind recently and I’m not joking. Although I am laughing it off today because I recognize that it was an exaggerated and Intrusive Thought, it was a very real one that played over and over in my …
Taste and See
Originally, I was going to title this post Be a Pink Spoon to connect to a previous writing, but the more I read about the word foretaste in Amy Sherman’s book, Kingdom Calling, the more I considered the verse from Psalm 34:8 written on the spoon rest sitting atop my stove: “Taste and See that …
More Your Size
Max Lucado shares a story that George Washington Carver asked God, “Why did you make the universe?” But God answered, “You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask me something More Your Size.” So, Carver rephrased, “What was man made for?” Again He said, “Little man, you are still asking …
Mellow-Hearted People
When you’re on an extended journey, it is beneficial to see signposts along the route, encouraging you to continue on your way, guiding you to a particular destination. Whether that guidance comes in the form of a road map, a curriculum map, or other directions to follow, you find reassurance that someone else has already …
Flourishing @ Life 