Luke’s parable speaks of blind spots, the splinters large and small, which prevent us from seeing. Good trees don’t bear rotten fruit. And in the midst of this we hear the reminder that if we are truly disciples, followers of Jesus, we will have what we need to speak and act in the manner of […]
Lord, for all the times I did not love those You placed in my life as You asked me to, I am sorry. Change my heart to love as You would have me love them.
Perhaps it wasn’t only our generation that bought into the lie that blessedness means material wealth and the absence of suffering? Jeremiah, the Psalmist and Jesus all go to considerable lengths to remind us the experience of blessing may coexist with poverty, pain, rejection, misunderstanding or longing. They even go so far as to suggest […]
My child, I have chosen you by name. Because I have called you, I will equip you. Be not afraid and pull out into the deep.
By our baptism we are prophets, consecrated and appointed by the Lord to go out to the nations and speak His word, faithfully as He commands. Before we were formed in the womb, we were known by God. God has a plan for you, a destiny. Embrace it.