“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
This is the fourth post on this topic. “When trials and temptations crowd into your life, don’t resent them…welcome them as friends!” How can such difficulties possibly be for our good? And if they are for our good, does our God keep adding more adversity, more difficulty to our lives? And if He does that, …
“Life is hard. Then, you die.” This is the happy, hopeful message I read on a bumper sticker several years ago. I have never forgotten it, in large part because I was struck at how truthful the message was, and yet how it totally missed “the rest of the story.” Yes, adversity dogs us. Setbacks, …
Nearly three years ago, on a sunny Saturday morning, I had just finished a long weekend run. As I stood in the kitchen drinking a Powerade, my phone rang. Looking at the California number on the ID and calculating the time difference, I knew before answering it that bad news was coming. And I was …
“If God loves me, why can’t I get my locker open?” This is the tongue-in-cheek title of a popular teen devotional book written years ago. Perhaps it was popular because we have all had this thought in some form or another. If God loves me, why did my father treat me as he did? If …
One Pursuit 