The Landscape is Calling Us

 I see a star in the east.  It is the only star in the breaking light of the morning sky.  Yes, every morning recently when I go out for my early walk there it is, the star in the east.  It is a reminder of a star appearing that wise men followed to find someone who was wiser.  Someone outside themselves who would be an answer to a search. But…

Heritage, the Unseen Blessing

 I just got a cup in the mail.  On it there are printed two flags.  Over the top one, the American, it says---My Nation.  Under the second one, the Norwegian---My Heritage.  Both of them carry a message with basic questions defining us; about where, what, when, why and how we came to be.  This is especially true if you are first-generation-born in a…

‘Now,’ The Lord’s Time and Our Time

‘Now’ is the present, the moment, the conscious awareness that we are.  When Jesus lifted His eyes to Heaven and prayed, “Father, the hour has come.”---this was his recognition that there is a conscious sense of being in the ‘now.’  However, His human time was to become a spiritual time; chronos to Kairos.  ‘Now’ was on the verge of being transformed into eternity. Jesus was…

Being Full Instead of -ful

 We have a lot of words that end in ‘ful’ like mindful, fruitful, powerful and so on.  But for us as believers, three stand out for me: careful, prayerful and dareful (my word I added because of what the first two led me to share).

 Careful, prayerful and dareful; three words that spur us on to being a witness.  They come alive when we look at…