Out of the Chaos
Inspiration for living outside of the chaos.
Tag: Christian
Daily Reads 2.24.2019
Last week I worshiped at my home church in Indiana. It wasn’t the best for me. I only tell you that because I want you to know that even for someone connected to a body of worshipers, I have off Sundays. I wanted nothing more than to run like the wind and get out of …
Daily Reads 2.23.2019
The final principle is key to changing how you interact with the world. I have been so blessed by this passage and my prayer is that you have been as well. Read: Judges 6:11-18 Fourth Principle: Go with what you have and he will make it enough. When the angel first spoke with Gideon, Gideon launched a narrative on why he didn’t believe the Lord was with …
Daily Reads 2.22.2019
Heads up! Today is a bit longer than I aim to have the daily readings. This principle is so important I didn’t feel right cutting it short. We are making so much progress. An invitation has been issued to come out of hiding, to step out of the pit. As you do, you are invited …
Daily Reads 2.21.2019
Yesterday you were invited to come out of hiding, out of the pit. Today we are going to see what happens when we do. Read: Judges 6:11-18 The angel of the Lord came to Gideon and greeted him with these words as a call to join him on solid ground: Mighty hero, the Lord is …
Daily Reads 2.20.2019
Okay. I’m going to do it again. So I will just tell you up front – we are going to stay in Judges 6 this week. There is so much to learn and so little time, but here we go! I’m going to draw out four principles necessary to understand in order to change the …
Puzzling, isn’t it?
I grew up on a farm in northwest Montana. My parents owned 160 acres along Flathead River; 80 acres was tillable land where Dad grew grain and hay. Eighty acres was a conifer woods along the river “below the hill.” It was our natural playground where our imaginations ran wild. After our chores were finished, …
Daily Reads 2.18.2019
Does it ever feel like events or circumstances in your life are just random fragments with you as the only thing they have in common? And then on closer inspection, a connection begins to come into focus between seemingly happenstance events. How can this be? Tonight my daughter said, “Sometimes what we perceive others think …
Daily Reads 2.16.2019
Home! That is where I am headed today. There is a level of anticipation and excitement that I can’t quite contain. Even though it is cold and wintry in Indiana and I am leaving behind the sunshine and 80’s of Florida, I love what I will find – family, home, church. What are you anticipating …
Daily Reads 2.15.2019
Comparison kills YOU. It is a cancerous growth that metastasizes from “I don’t have enough.” to “I am not enough.” Slowly we begin to believe that we are a mistake, that we will never be enough. The slide downward is slow and slippery; the mud and mire of comparison pull deeper and deeper into the …
Daily Reads 2.14.2019
Comparison is a lack of regard for others and their journeys. Loving others is impossible if you see the people around you as a threat rather than people with potential. Read: Matthew 22:38-39; Matthew 5:43-47 I have to chuckle a little to see that my post on loving others falls on Valentine’s Day. This is …
Out of the Chaos 