From My Town to Your Town

From My Town to Your Town

(from Pause with Jesus: Entering His Story in Everyday Life by Chris Maxwell, True Potential, 2015 – from Chapter Three: “The Journey” – to purchase visit: Amazon)   The wedding didn’t go quite as they had planned. The wine was missing....
addiction

addiction

  (poetic confession written after counseling a friend many years ago)   groping still for coping skills that permanently alter pain. too often the ticks only complicate the tension plunging me into a maze of hostile design and hidden doubt; nailing me to...
criticism

criticism

cheap shots from the gallery wear us down over time. at first, we are prepared, and the initial attacks meet the resistance of zeal and determination. the questions come and we listen and we learn, or we laugh. but, like a boxer tiring from repeated body blows,...
Pause: Wishing

Pause: Wishing

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    Take time to glance out the windows. Remember the past. Forgive and be forgiven. Notice the pain and be healed. Smile. Discern the...
Pause: Wanting

Pause: Wanting

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    We are people who wait and wait and wait. For the money, for the answer, for the invitation, for the assurance. We wait for the call; we...