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…

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…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be Sometimes we want to change people but we must remember that only God can touch the deepest place of another’s soul. We may think we can intimidate, lecture, flatter, reason, cajole, reward, to get the desired behavior from another but we can’t touch the…

Devotions for John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be We all need difficult people in our lives to help us grow and become the best version of ourselves.  Other people don’t create our spirit; they reveal our spirit.  If we need to develop love, then some unlovable people will be our greatest challenge.…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The  Me I Want to Be Our relationships with others grows deep when we are real and honest about the sin that is common to us all. When we can step into openness and stop pretending, we will find ourselves coming alive. Hiddenness is the enemy of flourishing. When someone…