Scripture-centered reflections to help you quiet your mind, encounter the presence of Jesus, and live with greater peace, hope, and faith.
Jesus in Mathew 6:34 wants to encourage us, “Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” (NLT) We need to contemplate how to live in the present now of today because there is no tomorrow in real-time. Everything beyond the present moment exists as an illusion…
We search for the mysterious treasure of peace of mind, an elusive gift nearly impossible to obtain in this life. In desperation, we seek a cure for the thoughts which entangle us frozen in the past and medicine to free us from the anxiety of what is unfolding in an unknown and clouded future. (Calming…
We all would like to know when we should risk moving on to a new stage of life. The words, “It’s time to move on.” are far less hurtful than hearing the impossible judgment from others, “You need to just, get over it and move on.” Yes, there is an appropriate time to move on with…
A beautiful depiction is the Son of God as the Bread of Heaven who comes down to earth to provide nourishment for a broken and lost humanity. The bread is the resurrection life and Spirit freely given without question for those who are hungry for the presence of God. There are no qualifiers or restrictions…
For some, it is the outer edge of folly, and for others, it is the transcendent hope of our souls that God came down, appeared and took on flesh, and became one of us. The enchantment of Christmas is the acknowledgment that the “Christ” child is “Immanuel” God with us. (The Day God Lifted the…
The quest to answer “Who am I?” is shrouded in mystery, for it is a search to find the essence of our being and personal identity. Beyond the story-lines of our pasts, the heartbreaks, and the triumphs in our lives, Christianity and other spiritual traditions endeavor to explain and resolve the reason and purpose for…
Everyone struggles with feelings of loneliness and the despair of being alone. There is the cosmic loneliness of being on a sphere spinning through space at six hundred miles per second. We have troubling thoughts about our significance when we compare ourselves to the indescribable vastness of the universe. There is an adage spoken…
Surely God is in this Place, and I didn’t even know it Jacob laments after waking up after a night of intense struggle. In every moment everywhere and in every aspect of life, God is closer than we can ever imagine or contemplate. In our darkest hours, in our suffering and pain when all seems…
Twentieth-century theologian Paul Tillich penned an essay titled, “You are Accepted.” Those three life-altering words are in the context of our relationship with God and essential to our spiritual experience and awareness. We tend to run from the presence of God because of our sins, failures, and shortcomings. Instead of the freedom Christ offers, we…
Since the beginning of time, mysteriously hidden in our souls, is the deep-seated longing for a return to the point which has no beginning or end. It is an inherent clamoring of our heart for permanence and meaning behind the spectacle of a brief, at times unbearable, and fleeting life. The night sky of the moon…
On a Tuesday night, a couple of years go, I stopped at a Waffle House in southern Tennessee, and there were two twenty dollar bills in my wallet. I went inside and ordered a five dollar meal. I decided I would give the hard-working waitress a twenty-dollar bill, and it would leave her a decent…
There is a misconception in our minds that eternity is waiting for us sometime in the future. Joseph Campbell writes in the “Power of Myth,” eternity has nothing to do with time, for it is always in the present tense, and we experience it in the here and now. The stumbling block for us is…