Perspective (FMF Link Up)

Perspective...It is so easy to be so close to a situation, or so caught up in it that we lose perspective. Everything kind of gets blurry and things look different than they really are. Sometimes things seem so much bigger, and other things so much smaller than in reality they are. The important thing with …

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Another (FMF Link Up)

Another... There is another narrative flowing throughout all time and history that is truer than any story being told. God is making all things new. He is in the process of redeeming and restoring this world. The narrative of the world is loud and appears to be the truest because there seems to be so …

Now (FMF Link Up)

Now... Over the past couple of years I have been learning and practicing the discipline of being fully present. I have a deep desire to be fully present to the circumstance and people in the moment. I believe that God asks that of us. As much as we desire the future and yearn for it, …

Tomorrow (FMF Link Up)

Tomorrow...  As with so many people right now, I had plans for tomorrow and for many tomorrows after that. I am a dreamer and adventurer. This Spring there were to be many adventures. And just like everyone else in the world, I watched as one by one each was cancelled. I was reminded of James …

Before (FMF Link Up)

Before... The word of the LORD came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and …

Risk (FMF Link Up)

Risk... we have a rule at our house that was  implemented kind of as a joke years ago, but it has stuck. Rule 327, "No dying or hospital visits, unless it's a good story". I now have spread that rule to the students in the classrooms I sub in. They ponder it and then seriously …

Experience (FMF Link Up)

Experience... No experience necessary. The sign is in the window of many shops these days, but is there such thing? Some experience is always necessary, and there is no way to not have experience. Everyday we experience life, and depending on our experiences it shapes us, and at times we shape it. As I sub …

Darkness (FMF Link Up)

Darkness... I expected darkness. It was my middle of the night bathroom run, but the world was lit up by the light of the full moon so low and close. It was still there in the wee hours as I drove to school. The beauty overwhelmed and blessed me. It reminded me of Isaiah's declaration, …

Rush (Link Up with FMF)

Rush... At first I don't notice because it has always been my default movement, and way of being, rushing here and there even in my mind, hurrying about. But over the last few years I have tried to be more intentional in my presence, more intentional with my movement and thoughts, more ordered, less chaotic, …

Last (FMF Link Up)

Last... Such an interesting word that invokes so many emotions. Some lasts we know are the last: the last piece of candy or pie, the last day of work, last time to do something, or see someone. Depending on the feelings towards it different emotions can fill that time of last. I think of the …