That's the Spirit

For all the glorious sights and experiences of my nine-day European cruise, the defining moments unfolded in an unplanned window of time as ...

Little annoyances were starting to accumulate, and I had started to compose a blog post: Negativity, get thee away from me! I'm wrestlin...

I'm not adding or subtracting anything for Lent this year. I feel as if I've been on that kind of spiritual journey since the start ...

This first month of 2012 has been quite a process. In some ways, I feel as if I've made a lot of progress in some important areas. But p...

Psalmcat 52:1.1.12 On New Year's Eve, I wrote down three thoughts for 2012: Keep it simple. Keep it spiritual. Let God lead. So, today t...

Faith. Hope. Love. And the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) Faith is very, very important, though. In recent days, I have be...

Recently some of my best times have been on weekends, especially involving moments with my parents and family in Texas. But this past weeken...

Deadline snuck up on me again. With my current work shift, I miss my morning walks around the neighborhood pond/lake, which had become a goo...

From Beth Moore's Praying God's Word Day by Day Aug. 16 (my Mom's birthday) Beth's quote: "Allow your circumstances a...

"Good morning," he said. "Not the best," replied I. I mean, here I was back at the car care center first thing Monda...

I'm still in what I hope is just a summer slump. I know the answer is just to get busy, put one foot in front of the other; take one ste...

I'm at the self-imposed blog deadline, and I'm pretty sure no words are ready to post. But I will post anyway. It's a pain-free ...

Psalmcat 52:3.14.11 During two weeks of what seemed like futile efforts in battling a cold, sinus congestion, allergies or whatever, I some...

Psalmcat 51:2.5.11 I hope it's a sign of spiritual maturity and not immaturity or senility that I'm learning to laugh with God when ...

Psalmcat 51:1.29.11 I'm not where I'd like to be in adjusting to a schedule that has me working until midnight 4 out of 5 days each...

After more than two weeks -- including a week of vacation days -- pedaling only on the exercise bike and bypassing the two-wheeler, I forced...

I just realized (again?) one reason the self-imposed blog deadline is sometimes difficult. It's because even though I say I have no rul...

I've been going through a period of second-guessing and self-doubt. It's what has kept me from writing about the reunion and some ...

Sometimes God clearly says: This one's yours. That's what happened after my friend Kathy's husband died. My first reaction was ...

I wanted to post the words to a song ("Mizpah") and a prayer ("The Serenity Prayer") shared at the recent memorial servi...