Christianity is a lay-driven movement, not a preacher-driven one. Each of us is to have a personal relationship with Christ, a deep knowledge of the Bible gained through Bible study, an ability to hear and follow God’s Indwelling Spirit, a body of experience of who God is in our own lives, knowledge of our own […]

Humility is probably the most important quality that is realized in a close relationship with God. In surrendering our own agendas, our preferences, our cultural biases, our assumptions and our ways to God, we are left with our own poverty, our own lack of knowledge of God, our own small selves. Walking with the Lord […]

You’ve read bits and pieces of my spiritual life in these blog posts over the years; today I want to talk about my purpose in writing everything I write. Two dreams revealed my purpose to me in 2011. I had been writing my blog for three years when I dreamt this in June: I was […]

By Your Grace I am no longer living in doubt and fear. I am a reasonably well-adjusted, happy senior. I have a purpose that gives me such contentment to fulfill. I have a full life after the death of my husband.   I could go on and on about all that the Lord, by His […]

This winter I have been struck by the beauty of the bare trees…by how we can now see behind them and through them…and especially by how their inner structure is now revealed. When trees are fully leafed, we only get rare glimpses of the branches or of what is behind a tree. In winter we […]

  I have been writing over the last month about all that stands in the way of our relationship with God: 1)our negative self-images; 2)the need for trust in God and for our listening for the Indwelling Spirit of God; 3)the need for a full surrender of who we are to God and 4)the need […]

“Mary, did you know that you baby boy is Lord of all creation?  Mary, did you know that your baby boy will one day rule the nations?  Did you know that your baby boy is heaven’s perfect lamb?  This sleeping child you’re holding is the great I am?”   On Christmas Eve this year it […]

During December all four posts will be on the topic of Loving God with all of ourselves. To love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, is Jesus’ first great Commandment. The Second is to love our neighbor as ourselves. These two commandments sum up all the law and the prophets. [Matthew 22:36-40, […]

One-seventh of an iceberg is visible above the water surface after it breaks off or calves from a glacier and plunges into the northern seas. There it slowly drifts southward into warmer waters than the arctic ones it first encountered. Gradually, as the waters warm the iceberg melts and releases up to 5,000 years of […]

“Enter through the narrow gate.”   Jesus speaks in parables and metaphors and truth that is revealed to us as we live in him and dedicate our lives to him. He did not expect many to understand what he was saying. It’s only in the meditating on and living with a portion of his teaching, […]