Tag: faith
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Sandbags, saran wrap, bulldozers, government workers and barefoot and topless men with buckets!
The Western Way: High Overhead and Control vs The African Way: Carefree Resilience The Search for Solomon: There was something about Solomon and his very insightful statement in Ecclesiastes 1:4 that just didn’t sound like the Solomon I learned about over the years. “A Generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever!!!!!!…
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The Crumbling Cliffside and the Immovable Spine
Finding the Carefree Horizon Across the Seasons of Life Sitting here in my comfortable home near Laguna Beach on a beautiful Saturday morning while the rest of the family is running a garage sale, I started reminiscing about this past week as it has been completely full of life changing events, as well as old…
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Slicing Through the Pendulum of Man-Made Religion
What Jesus Actually Called the Way The Corporate Pendulum: In the quiet stillness of a Tuesday morning, while the rest of the world is trapped inside the high-voltage noise of the modern panic loops, my screen is tuned into Dr. Michael Youssef’s sermon, “The Call to Awakening.” He is asking a heavy, urgent question: Is…
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Explaining the Pure, Original Definitions
The Word from the LORD of Hosts to Zechariah The 5:00 AM Meeting after the Promise. Just last night, at 11:12 PM I hit the publish button on my dashboard and released a fierce promise to the universe. “I know I use the words ‘fear porn’ often, but as far as I am concerned fear…
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The True Bridegroom:
An Unconditional Passion The Scent of Cinnamon and the Open Sky: When I sat down to publish Part One of my hometown memory series last night, the sheer sensory weight of that 1985 morning at Otsiningo Park completely flooded my room. I could smell the coffee dripping at 6:00 AM, taste the warm cinnamon buns…
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The Monster in the Sandbox:
Hacking the Brain or Just Sorting the Laundry? The Apocalyptic Comedy Loop: The modern airwaves are heavy with a new brand of high-voltage “Fear Porn”. Turn on the end-times podcast or religious news channel today, and you will hear frantic voices screaming that Artificial Intelligence is a supernatural demonic army, a satanic takeover designed to…
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Part 4–The Sand Dollar
The Message Left on the Shoreline Hey friend! So far on this creation trail, we have discovered the Creator’s fingerprint inside our kitchen glass, over our own chest, and the deep soil of our gardens. Today we are taking a slow unhurried walk down the shoreline to pick up one of the most magnificent, delicate…
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The Currency of Chaos:
Why I Stepped Off the Algorithm’s Edge Early this morning after saying goodbye, and good luck to my granddaughter as she and family left for an early morning girls’ softball double header, with a fresh cup of morning coffee and in the quiet of what promised to be the picture of a peaceful Sunday morning.…
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Part 3: The Beautiful Struggle
Darkness, Seeds, and the Delivery Room Hey friend! In our first two stops along this trail, we looked at the kitchen glass and the literal bones protecting our chest to find the Creator’s signature. Today we are stepping outside into the garden soil and then stepping straight into the intensity of the delivery room, to…
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Part 2: The Cross in the Ribcage
The Cross Over Your Heartbeat Hey friend! In our last post, we stood at the kitchen sink and discovered that God left a beautiful, gentle cheat sheet of His three-in-one identity floating right inside our drinking glass. But the Creator didn’t stop there. He didn’t just paint His signature across the elements of nature; He…
