Category: Reflections

  • Entertaining Angels Unawares

    Entertaining Angels Unawares

    “Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.”  (Heb 13:2)  I had a visit from one of those strangers who ultimately became an ‘angel’ in disguise.  Here’s the story.  

  • The secret to being washed clean

    The secret to being washed clean

    What is the spiritual equivalent of pollen? One of many answers is guilt, especially guilt of the past

  • Who’s in your throne room?

    Who’s in your throne room?

    Once upon a time, there was a kingdom.  In the kingdom was a castle.  Inside the castle was one large room.  Inside the room was a throne.  Sitting on the throne was a man, very much like every other man only more gentle, more peaceable, more thoughtful, and more humble…

  • Filled with Expectation

    Filled with Expectation

    The “people were filled with expectation”. Are you?

  • My Resolutions to End Division

    My Resolutions to End Division

    When divisions arise in your heart, mind, or in the world around you, follow the advice Saint Paul gave to the Colossians.

  • Finding God in the Fog of a New Year

    Finding God in the Fog of a New Year

    With the unseasonably warm weather this late December, there is a lot of morning fog rising off of Lake Norman and offers a great metaphor to enter the New Year.

  • The trees point to the cross

    The trees point to the cross

    Celebrating the birth is wonderful, but the cross reminds us that whatever we face “God is with us” to lead us through life’s challenges.

  • I think it’s so groovy now…

    I think it’s so groovy now…

    “I think it’s so groovy now that people are finally getting together. I think it’s wonderful and how that people are finally getting together.” Is it time for you to “reach out of the darkness”?

  • Remodeling Your Interior Castle

    Remodeling Your Interior Castle

    Is it time for you to look at remodeling your own ‘interior castle’?

  • Peering into the fog

    Peering into the fog

    I wanted blue skies and sunshine to conclude the retreat, but instead was only able to see the trees up close and fog beyond. Maybe that’s how God wants it – for me to direct my focus on that which is right before me and trust that God is silently…