“There is no way out of the inner life. So one had better get into it.” Parker Palmer “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it” Henri…
“Don’t you realize that it is God’s kindness that is trying to lead you to him and change the way you think and act?” Romans 2:4 “Those who look to him are radiant. There faces…
“A parent’s unconscious is a child’s first reality.” Louis Cozolino “Love covers over a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8 Brandt had been crying for over an hour. I mean this guy was straight singing…
“Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice.” Dan Allender, Tremper Longman “I’ve never met an irrational emotion. Once you know the whole story, they always…
“Don’t muzzle your ox as he treads the grain press.” Deuteronomy 25:4 “I did it!” Brandt Yesterday morning during the middle of my first sip of coffee, our two year old son Brandt ran into…
“The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.” John 1:14 “God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good!” Genesis 1:31 “Everything is already yours as a…
A divorced man came to me recently to get his life back. He was pretty beat up. Let me state the obvious for us all: Divorce is brutal. An end to a story that lovers…
“Our view of spiritual manhood has more to do with continuing to function in spite of difficulties than with successfully overcoming them.” Larry Crabb, Don Hudson, Al Andrews My friend Mary Ellen stopped me in…
“God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness.” Apostle Peter “If I were God, or God's West Coast Rep, I would have a much more organized and predictable system.” Anne Lamott "There is evil…