Last month I felt a pull towards having a more focused prayer time. Perhaps it’s a lack of sleep or a brain that quickly jumps from thought to thought (often landing in the realm of to-do’s), but I knew I needed something that would help me stay focused. I found some wonderful resources of prayer … Continue reading Guided Prayer Guide – Free Printable
Sometimes God reveals new truth to us in moments of silence and solitude. The tragedy in this? I don't seek these moments nearly enough. Here's one moment when God revealed Himself as my Protector and Defender. The following passage is an excerpt from Grieve, Create, Believe: Process Your Loss with Intention and Truth, Chapter 8: … Continue reading Defending by Surrendering
On my 33rd birthday, after an ECHO scan of baby boy and a lunch of pho and bubble tea, Sam and I took a walk around our old campus at the University of Illinois. We love visiting and reminiscing on some of our favorite years (most of which we didn’t spend together, since we started … Continue reading The Duty of Delight
Sometimes I feel that people (especially Christians?) in our society have an expectation placed upon others to work through something and tie everything up neatly. To wait until the struggle is over to openly share. There's this enormous pressure to share the good things, put up a face, and keep private the mess. I get … Continue reading Grief and Faith
(The first post by Clive's dad, Sam. I actually wrote this 3 weeks ago and just now got around to posting it.)Some of you may have listened to my sermon from a month ago. If you didn’t, the thrust of it is that when difficult times come we all want to know “why” and, frustrating … Continue reading Sam’s Thoughts – Vol. 1
Have you read Hinds Feet on High Places? I love it. I read it with a couple friends last year, and it's speaking to me all over again as I re-read it. It's the allegorical story of a girl named Much-Afraid that desires to leave her family (the Fearings) and her life in the Valley … Continue reading detour through the desert
Read this. Really. Not just skim like you usually do. Hebrews 11 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.2 This is what the ancients were commended for. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out … Continue reading A Better Country
I used to have this cutesy frame that said, "Happiness is circumstantial. Joy is a choice. Choose joy today." It helped me through some somewhat rough days and gave me some good perspective to choose joy in Christ when I felt sour or frustrated. And then some really hard times hit and I remember thinking … Continue reading when joy doesn’t feel like a choice
Sam and Rachel George 