August 13, 2026
People of Reconciliation
If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you were born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special.
August 12, 2026
Hope Built on Promise
Optimism arranges reality in a way that enables us to say things will get better. Pessimism arranges the same reality so that we can say things will probably get worse.
August 11, 2026
Kingdom Logic
Remember the big crowd, five loaves, and two fish (Matt. 14:15-21)? Jesus said, “Give them something to eat.” The disciples responded, “Lord, five loaves, two fish, big crowd? It doesn’t fit.”
August 10, 2026
Revelation
Perhaps the best definition of revelation is the uncovering of the truth that it is safe to love.
August 9, 2026
Gently Return to the Center
Solitude is a way to get a little control over our own inner life.
August 8, 2026
Reborn in God
Help me, O Lord, to let my old self die, to let die the thousand big and small ways in which I am still building up my false self and trying to cling to my false desires.
August 7, 2026
Freedom In Letting Go
I have noticed in my own life that people I don’t like have power over me because I am always thinking about them.
August 6, 2026
Discovering Our True Self
To give a blessing is to affirm, to say “yes” to a person’s Belovedness.
August 5, 2026
I Love You Too
God loved you before you were born, and God will love you after you die. In Scripture God says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
August 4, 2026
Discovering Our True Self
The spiritual journey is essentially different from engaging in hero worship or joining a therapeutic movement.
August 3, 2026
Travel On
Sometimes we have to “step over” our anger, our jealousy, or our feelings of rejection and move on. The temptation is to get stuck in our negative emotions, poking around in them as if we belong there.
August 2, 2026
Purify My Heart
O Lord …. Purify my heart and show me your light. I do not have to go far.
August 1, 2026
The Jesus Prayer
One simple way to practice solitude is to take a simple prayer like, “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.”
July 31, 2026
Nobody Can Be Excluded
Enemies are enemies by the way we exclude them from the love of God.
July 30, 2026
From All Eternity
Jesus came to share his identity with you and to tell you that you are the beloved sons and daughters of God.
July 29, 2026
I Will Pray
“Pray even when you do not feel attracted to it.” Yes, Lord, I will try to pray, even when I am afraid to face you and myself, even when I keep falling asleep or feel as though I am going around in circles, even when it seems that nothing is happening.
July 28, 2026
Seen by God From All Eternity
When I know I am chosen, I know that I have been seen as a special person.
July 27, 2026
So Much Talking
It is so hard to be silent, silent with my mouth, but even more, silent with my heart.
July 26, 2026
Solitude Challenges Drivenness
Solitude comes from the word solus, meaning to be alone. People have an enormous number of things to do in life. Many of us are driven.
July 25, 2026
Chosen to be Beloved
To become the Beloved we, first of all, have to claim that we are taken.