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...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 7, 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. 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...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 5, 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. As circumstances of life shift from pleasure to pain, we long for assistance. We want certainty from a source we can trust. We suffer...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 1, 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. Most of us are too plugged in to the system of our days. I am. Unplugging is a choice, not a requirement. It frees us from the bondage...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 27, 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. The “song” of a painful experience from our past hits replay way too often. We hear it and feel it and experience it over and over and...
