Growth is always awkward… for us human beings… Babies learning to eat… Toddlers learning to walk… Teens learning to relate to one another… Awkward… Spiritual growth…. the same… Awkward… Learning to pray… hear… obey… Like Lazarus raised from the tomb… still wrapped in death clothes… needing help to get unwrapped… “Lazarus, come out.” The man…… Continue reading awkward…
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. –CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man CS Lewis Daily… comes to me via email… The quote today has me thinking about the teaching I do… Adults… second graders… teens… all different levels of interest and maturity… when it comes to faith……… Continue reading irrigating… an approach to teaching…
No… there’s no going back to the ten year plan… The answer from the doctor as I lay on the table all prepped for a colonoscopy… a diagnostic procedure I underwent just three years ago… And I really did realize… that after one suspicious find… even if all was clear this time… I was no…… Continue reading no going back…
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. Isaiah 61:3 NIV Spiritual growth… It’s a slow grow… Becoming like Him… Wholehearted… Holy… Wholly Healed… We’re called trees for a reason… Like the rings of a tree… Each year… gradually increasing in diameter… Little… by… little……… Continue reading slow… grow…
