Out of the Chaos
Inspiration for living outside of the chaos.
Tag: Christian
Daily Reads 09.25.2019
Read: Psalm 139:13-18 While the words of this psalm are quite familiar to many, it bears reading again and again. Today when you read it, offer it as a prayer of thanksgiving to your Creator. He watched everything about how you were put together and he deemed it VERY GOOD! Sometimes our world tells us …
A Work of Art
It was during my time of healing. Well, really before I got serious about it. Preparing for a half marathon consumed my time and my thoughts. I was also finishing my undergrad degree, taking a fine art class. It happened to be ceramics. In the midst of all this, in walked conflict. She came in …
Daily Reads 09.23.2019
If I am chosen and I don’t bring anything to the table, what about doing good things? Does it matter what I do anymore? What about my skills, talents, aspirations, education, degrees, accomplishments? None of those things commend me to God. He isn’t impressed with what I can do or what others think about what …
Daily Reads 09.22.2019
As you begin a new week, I hope it includes some form of community. You are chosen, loved, desired. There is nothing you can do or have done that separates you from the lavish grace of God!
Daily Reads 09.21.2019
Another observation regarding chosenness: you gotta live like you believe it. There is a saying, “Fake it, ’til you make it.” I don’t know where it came from or if its roots are admirable, but it applies here. After encountering the Lord, learning his thoughts toward you, you need to walk like it. No more …
Daily Reads 09.20.2019
What have I observed about chosenness? I learned that being chosen for relationship is superior to being chosen for a task. You see, when I sit down at the table Jesus set for me and I spend time with my Father, his Son and the Holy Spirit – I don’t bring anything. I just bring …
Daily Reads 09.19.2019
Read: Ephesians 1:3-14 It’s impossible to live beyond what we believe about ourselves. Dr. Jay Shetler The words we say to ourselves are extremely powerful. If I believe myself to be broken beyond repair, worthless to society and a waste of time, that is what I will experience in life. We all have descriptive words …
Daily Reads 09.18.2019
Chosen. What does it mean to be chosen? Chosen for promotion means expectations and standards to meet. Chosen for a production means memorizing and practicing and performing. Chosen by God means relationship! Last night Dave and I sat down to a simple dinner of shrimp gumbo and rice. It was a bowl and a spoon. …
I choose you!
When I was a child, before there were mega stores, internet shopping, Prime delivery and Instacart, there was Fred Meyer – B & B – as we so fondly called it. This store was a precursor, I suppose, to mega stores. One end of the store was anchored by the clothing and shoe department. Next …
Daily Reads 09.16.2019
Listening to songs for our daughter’s wedding and painting my son-in-law’s (to be) house to my daughter’s playlist, one song kept popping up. “More Like Love” by Ben Rector is a story of moving from the desire to be famous to the desire to be loving. I relate. This song highlights my desires of the …
Out of the Chaos 