Rule of Life: Part 1 of 2

Rule of Life: Part 1 of 2

*This is a first draft. Grace please. “Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him . . . fix your attention...
Rule of Life: Part 2

Rule of Life: Part 2

*This is a first draft. Grace please. If you’ve not yet read part one, you can read it here. “Your personal rule of life is a holistic description of the Spirit-empowered rhythms and relationships that create, redeem, sustain, and transform the life God invites...
Coming Home: Part 2

Coming Home: Part 2

I’ve been taking a class on essay writing that has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, self-reflection, and a world of fun. This is part 2 of a draft, written for my first week’s assignment. In more ways that I cared to admit, I had embraced an...
Coming Home: Part 1

Coming Home: Part 1

I’ve been taking a class on essay writing that has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, self-reflection, and a world of fun. Here’s a first draft of my first week’s assignment. As a side note, it’s interesting that three or four of us...
A Place Called Home

A Place Called Home

Jennifer Lauck opens her memoir, Blackbird, with these words, “The only house I’ll every call home is the on Mary Street.” It led me to ask the inevitable question, “Where or what is home for me?” It is a question I’ve been asking myself since childhood, because as...