by Chris Maxwell | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause for Moms: Finding Rest in a too Busy World. Pick up your copy on Amazon. My mind still plays scenes from those years with my mother. Carolyn Acker Maxwell’s smile and voice, laughter and conversations, songs and stories—so...
by Chris Maxwell | Mar 13, 2016 | Blog
The bus was hot and crowded. Looking out the windows, we could see the trees and shrubs covered with a layer of dust. With no a/c, the air was stifling, but opening the windows let in the choking dust. Some 25 of us were headed to a location about 90 minutes outside...
by Chris Maxwell | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
– Today’s blog is from Chris Maxwell’s book “Changing My Mind.” This week is the 20th anniversary of when his life changed from encephalitis. He now lives with epilepsy, severe brain damage, and he tells his story by writing and speaking...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
a cage, heart-prison, my security; a rage growing in obscurity; a page turning to day and place. priorities of present time and space reverse inside the Truth, remain off center inside the mind. climbing trees for a distant glimpse; touching threads for an...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 24, 2016 | Conversations
I asked James Watkins, the author of The Imitation of Christ: Classic Devotions in Today’s Language, to tell me about this modernized and organized edition of Thomas à Kempis’ best-seller of 500 years. Jim directed me to the actual words of this amazing author: ...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
(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....
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog
(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...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
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,...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-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...
