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Book of the Month: Schola Caritatis: Learning the Rhythms of God's Amazing Love

  Starting a new feature for the next several months called Book of the Month.  I will present one of my books and tell you a little of the ...

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

the hard way

it is the failures that 
fuel the successes
the humiliations that 
lead to true humility
the desperation that
leads to total surrender
losing yourself that
leads to finding yourself

for narrow is the gate
and hard is the way
that leads to life
and few find it

Sunday, July 20, 2025

you see me

you see beyond
the me i have become
to the me you imagined

you see beyond
the ways i have been 
deformed and defaced
by the hurts i've endured
and the lies i've believed
about you and about me

circus mirrors that 
do not tell the truth
but distort and disfigure
your beautiful creation 

you see beyond 
the wounds and the woes
the brokenness and the pain
the patterns and dysfunctions
the compulsions and addictions
the fear and the doubts

you see the real me
the eternal me
the beloved one
the masterpiece
of your own making

and you long for me
to see it too

Sunday, July 13, 2025

desired

“I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.” (Song of Songs 7:10)

“Do you know that you are desirable?  Do you know how deeply I love you and desire you?  You are my beloved, my bride, my lover, my heart’s desire.  You are the apple of my eye.  Don’t let the world around you, or the doubt within you, convince you of anything else.”

My you know the depths of his love and affection today.

Saturday, July 12, 2025

kingdom life

like a weaned child
is my soul within me
stilled and quieted
free of need
free to love

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

being still

 “Be still and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
(Psalm 46:10)

Why is “be still and know that I am God” so hard?
Is it because I'm afraid he can’t do his work without me,
Or is it because I’m afraid he can?

Sunday, July 6, 2025

powerlessness

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)

When will we ever get it through our heads that apart from Jesus we are utterly powerless?  We keep trying to do it on our own, but we just keep “missing the mark” (the definition of the Greek word for sin).  And we will continue to miss the mark until we surrender our attempts to do it ourselves and submit to the power of Jesus to claim the victory for us that we can never achieve for ourselves.  We can’t, but he can.  Lord Jesus, have mercy on us!

Lord Jesus, maybe I keep failing because I keep trying to do it on my own.  I am powerless to do anything but miss the mark apart from you.  Lord Jesus, have mercy on me!


Wednesday, July 2, 2025