What keeps us from calling out to God in the first place?

This is a psalm to meditate on and have in your back pocket. Who are you listening to? Where are you running? What is the truth?

Am I asking for more? Or perhaps more specifically—am I choosing to let this relationship be enough?

Something left you thinking, “Why God, why should I even try anymore?” Have you ever been there? It can be something huge or it can be just one more small straw, but how we deal with it will determine our future.

God calls us to be children, but many prefer the relative comfort and safety of workers. It’s possible to show up every week, to sing along to worship, to serve as a greeter or an usher or whatever, to go to retreats and conferences and all of it and never actually approach the throne of God.

Of all analogies for the Holy Spirit, fire can be the most troubling.

Where in life do you need fresh excitement or enthusiasm in order to stay engaged?

There are things that tie us down and hinder our growth that honestly shouldn’t. There are things in our lives that while they aren’t necessarily bad for us, they aren’t good for us as individuals.

While we celebrate mothers day, it takes a family, a community, to direct the path of a child to seek God and surrender to him.