Devotions from Margaret Silf’s book, Wayfaring All of us need courage to face the darkness within us and allow God to shine His light on it. Our faulty perspective blinds us and we need to cooperate with the Lord as He shows us what is hidden within us. “A decisive act of the will is…
Devotions from Margaret Silf’s book, Wayfaring We are all encrusted with distortions of evil that come between us and our true self and cause us much pain. We can choose whether or not we want to remain enslaved or if we want to own these tendencies and acknowledge them in light of His grace. We…
Devotions from Margaret Silf’s book, Wayfaring Our society measures our worth by our achievements and even the religious structures tend to underscore this in more subtle ways. We need to recover the value of our Being. God calls us into a deeper awareness of the wonder and beauty concealed in the heart of our being. …
Devotions from Margaret Silf’s book, “Wayfaring” This author talks about God’s invitation to walk our own living pathway in companionship with He who is the Way! We are on a pilgrim journey and it is not a tourist outing. It is a journey that challenges us and shapes our souls in ways we can not…
Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be We may desire a problem-free life, but that would be death by boredom. IT is in working to solve problems and overcome challenges that we become the person God wants us to be. Every problem is an invitation from the Spirit, and when we…
Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want To Be When adversity comes into our lives we can rise to the challenge and see abilities that have been hidden is us that would otherwise remain dormant. We don’t really know what we are capable of until we have to cope. Sometimes we lose everything…
I have to admit to whoever is reading my blog, that there are days when I begin to get negative and slightly depressed when I view what is going on in our nation. I have to continually guard against a “negative spirit.” I can easily get fearful and start worrying. I become concerned about the future. …
Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want To Be Paul says in Rom. 5 that we should rejoice in our sufferings, and he believed that suffering can lead to growth. Is it possible that adversity in our lives can cause us to reach our fullest level of growth and development? Robert Roberts describes…
Devotions by John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be Being a Christian doesn’t cover up bad work. We should do our very best, with all our might, that will honor Him. . “If I cannot experience the Spirit in the work I am doing today, then I can’t experience the Spirit today at…
Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be How do we find God in our work? How do we allow our work to move us toward the person God wants us to be? Jesus must have valued work for he spent more than ¾ of his life as a carpenter. God has…