A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

God Loves Us Because of His Knowledge About Us, Not In Spite of It

| August 13, 2008

ShareJen and I were talking the other day and through our conversation God really spoke healing truth to our hearts. We were recalling the life-stories (without going into the specifics) we have been listening to in our Thrive groups. What we noticed is that when we take the time to hear and experience people’s stories [...]

The Fruit of Judgement

| June 18, 2008

Share This has been my observation: The fruit (or end result) of human judgment is quite often the exact opposite of what was intended by those doing the judging.

Leave ‘em Be, Don’t Yank the Weeds!

| June 13, 2008

Share I was looking in my backyard today and noticed all the weeds that have been popping up. I sighed at the thought of going out there and uprooting them. What a pain. Seeing all those weeds got me thinking about Jesus’ words where he taught us not to pull up the “weeds”, but to [...]

Leave ‘em Be, Don’t Yank the Weeds!

| June 13, 2008

Share I was looking in my backyard today and noticed all the weeds that have been popping up. I sighed at the thought of going out there and uprooting them. What a pain. Seeing all those weeds got me thinking about Jesus’ words where he taught us not to pull up the “weeds”, but to [...]

Broken

| April 5, 2008

Share I learned this from a friend recently: Those who are truly broken find it hard to judge anyone, even those who had a hand in breaking them.

Not Labeling is Freakin’ Hard!

| February 29, 2008

Share One of my personal mending shifts I have been trying to work on lately is fighting my internal need to label people. What I am finding is how deeply ingrained and automatic this habit really is. Recently, I have began to view not-labeling as a spiritual practice; one in which I try to see [...]