I received a message from someone recently… God wanted me to ask you what you are learning. Not what you are learning from books or from other people,and not what you are learning to share with others. But what are you learning from God? No reply needed..just being obedient to ask the question. There is [...]

“I’ve been thinking recently about our temptation to try to become more like God — more holy, more sinless, more perfect. Perhaps the thing we should be working for is to become more human — more fragile, more vulnerable, more unfinished; to be better at being human.” -Cheryl Lawrie

After teaching Wednesday nights, I’m usually in either a good mood or a really bad disappointed mood. This week was the latter. Whatever the mood, it usually is reflected in the following day also. For basically 24 hours I was sunk into a self-loathing state, all simply from my sense of failure. This teaching engagement [...]