“I’ll never change. I’ve always been like this. My father was a loser and now I am just following in his footsteps.” My heart broke as her eyes gazed far away at an imaginary, (yet in her mind) inevitable future. Despite her belief in Jesus, her eyes seemed blinded to the truth of her heritage in Christ. …
A Very Important Memorial Day
During the twenty years that we lived overseas, I often lost track of upcoming American holidays. Before wide-spread internet connection, I have to admit that the last Monday of May was usually spent with end of the year parties and summer plans. Yet, I vividly remember my first Memorial Day weekend back in the states in 2007. As …
Decapitation is Death
Drawing his neck upward, he wrenched his mouth open in a final, silent cry — the last gesture he would ever make. The bull’s severed head, pooling now in it’s own blood, stood upright by the stump of his neck in the dusty arena. The nearby ritual of the Malaysian priest was lost to me. All I could see …
Faithing
My precious child, Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in Me (John 14:1). Faith is a spiritual action, not a physical one. I asked you to faithe Me because honestly, that’s the only way that you and I can connect. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in …
Proserchomai
My precious child, Draw near. Approach Me. Proserchomai. It saddens Me when you cower so. I do recognize your fear. I saw it first in the eyes of your earthly father, Adam and your earthly mother, Eve. They too ran and hid when they acted independently of Me (Genesis 3:8). But you’ve been adopted away from …
The Trouble with Trouble (Part 2)
My pet calf, Trouble, had grown up. And now he would have to be sold. I decided that if I could somehow trade Trouble’s bovine nature with a human one, it would solve the whole dilemma. That way, he could just live with us forever. The next day with puffy, tearful eyes, I went to discuss this option …