building fences and dividing lines

There’s a reason He called us His Body and not His Estate.” That’s what Tib Pearson told me. Tib with his Red Wing work boots and worn John Deere hat and hands weathered and etched like a greying cedar rail. “A Body is connected with sinew and vein —  and an estate is divided with…

Go and Do

Our hope comes from GOD but if we do not allow people to help us, then how are we to have our hope fulfilled, since God uses others to touch us.  If you are hopeful … it could be that  you are helpless in a situation and you hope that someone who has the tools,…

the most fearful things

Somewhere along the line, we became convinced we needed to trade relationships of love for strategic management of others. That shift frightened us away from each other. That shift forfeited the only distinction Jesus asks us to be known for: Loving and allowing ourselves to be loved. The Cure: What If God Isn’t Who You…

festering quill

Awareness A big word full of seeing, observing knowing and catching I became aware while reading THE CURE a set of words that are stuck in me ….festering “I would say, I am sorry, if I thought you would believe me” SO WHAT! your not sorry then? and you think I wont believe you so,…

I will walk…

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injusticeand untie the cords of the yoke,to set the oppressed freeand break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungryand to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not…

The Walking Dead

When I was growing up scary movies and popcorn were the best! My mom yelling out at just the right moment, we would scream and popcorn would fly.  My mom is the biggest sci-fi , horror, end of the world, murder trial, serial killer movie nut… I inherited a bit of that I been watching…