Holiness Reeducation

Good Morning Dad, It was not a good night’s sleep last night. I was tossing and turning in my bed with a sense of unease or something. My spirit certainly wasn’t at rest even if my body was. I realize this morning that it was because of the way evil showed itself in Boston yesterday. […]

Dear Dad, I was thinking about you this morning and reflecting on how blessed I am. I take it for granted all the time. Even with plenty of reminders all around me, I still lose sight of you and your love during the day. I always want to feel shame when that happens, but you […]

On this National Day of Prayer I offer these words…. Glorious Father, I give you thanks this day because you have lifted up Jesus Christ from the grave and you have placed him over all powers, authorities, and principalities. Jesus reigns as Lord of all and you, O God, have given him all authority to […]

John 17 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.  I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than […]

Dear Father, On this day of remembering I pray that we truly remember. I pray that we remember who we are. I pray that we remember what it means to be your children. I pray that we remember who you are and respond accordingly. On this day when we look back and mourn for all […]

With the surprising announcement yesterday by President Obama that Osama Bin Laden was killed during a raid on his Pakistani hideout, we are left with a multitude of questions this morning. President Obama in his address said that “Justice has been done” with the killing of Osama. Reading the account of what it took to […]

Do you ever think about snow as being holy? In scripture when snow is used for imagery it is almost always used as a sign of purity. David asks God to cleanse him of his sin in Psalm 51 and to wash him so that he is as white as snow. God promises in Isaiah […]

There is an image God has seared into my brain. I see it every day now. I see it when I go to my refrigerator and get a glass of crystal clear, cold, and filtered water. It is an image I see when I look out in backyard and see the creek that runs behind […]

There was nothing extraordinary about yesterday, it was simply a Monday. Perhaps that’s the beauty in how extraordinary a day it was. Yesterday I had the rare privilege of holding a brand new baby in my arms and less than half an hour later, laying my hands on a friend who was about to die. […]

Nothing seemed important enough to blog about today with the unbelievable devastation in Haiti yesterday. A third of the country may need emergency aid, they are literally piling the dead up on top of each other on the street and the sturdiest, most well built buildings in the whole country such as the Presidential Palace, […]