Like Rain From Heaven, Let Your Mercy From Heaven Rain On Us

Sunday, 9:40pm, I’m safe and sound at home thinking back over the day. It was dark when I woke; the electricity flickering while dressing for church. Checking my phone for weather reports (it’s what we do in the Sooner State) overnight there’d been thunderstorms and flood warnings, and I slept right through it all. Uhh, […]

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Being Held There Is Grace Enough

The dreaded day was coming; it was just a matter of time. Hearing the news, I wasn’t prepared. The two of us, silent for the longest time, my friend studying my face then asked, “How do you feel? How are you doing?” It was surreal. I wasn’t sure. How does a soul feel after such […]

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How to Live Life to the Full

Googling those seven words, I was shocked to see how many hits in 0.43 seconds: 10,190,000,000 (Ten billion, one hundred and ninety million). That’s the most hits I’ve seen on any subject. I wonder if “how to live life to the full” is some of the most googled words on the internet? What irony. The […]

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Look Back, Look Around, Hope Is Up

The worldwide pandemic dominated the news; whose life wasn’t impacted? That was then and this is now. Today’s news streams the dark, quickly replaced by the next “Breaking News”. And in the midst of much hard and broken all around perhaps you’re finally out the other side of a long wilderness journey or maybe you’re […]

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Parable of the Sunflower and the Sacred Race

D riving to The City, I saw a sight I’d never witnessed in my life. As far as the eye could see, I was surrounded by wild Sunflowers. Mile after mile, bright yellow faces focused on their longing–the sun. The Oklahoma wind swirled through the fields, and the Sunflowers danced with abandon as if all heaven were […]

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