Posts Tagged ‘God’
Half a Mile a Day
Like so much about my about past, I had wide opinions and narrow views about life. This included politics and people; aesthetics and art; food and fun. Like so much about my now, my life has been transformed through the power of God’s grace and unconditional love for all people; people like me and people…
Read MoreDon’s Daily Devotion
If your “truth” harms others, it’s not truth.
Read MoreDon’s Daily Devotion
Love your neighbor and you love God. Love God and you love your neighbor.
Read MoreDon’s Daily Devotion
A life of love will lead to sorrow; proof you lived a life of love.
Read MoreReflecting on My Father’s Passing and Our Last Conversation
This past week marks one-year since my father’s passing. I think about him often and I miss and love him. This seemed like an apt time to share a previously published story* about my father three months before he passed; twelve months after my humbled heart surrendered to God. My heart is filled with the…
Read MoreFinding the Love of My Life: Hint; There’s No Place Like Home
No one is perfect and no one can fully complete us. No person can be all things to us because no person can truly know our heart, but God does. In knowing our heart, God knows us. In surrendering your heart to God, you will find perfect Love. God is Love.
Read MoreHow Asking Why Saved My Life
Why is a tiny three-letter word, but it’s as powerful as any pen and as potent as any prayer. A word and a question that all of us should incorporate and invoke in our daily life. Like any good habit, it can draw us nearer to God and closer to Divine wisdom. A word that…
Read MoreJudgement, Compassion, and Jesus
Judging others is a timeless human pastime. A characteristic that transcends time and terrain. An attribute that easily entraps all people, particularly people of any faith. And each time we judge someone, we diminish ourselves, denigrate others and dishonor God. Throughout any given day, I find myself making judgements about people I know and don’t…
Read MoreBetween Forty and Death: A Birthday Reflection
A life in service to Babylon and a heart in rebellion to God would ultimately betray Don. As I collected birthday after birthday, I could no longer avoid life’s reality of loss and suffering. Realizing I cannot stop the marching of time. It will trample the young and the old. Don Young and Don old.
Read MoreGod’s Gift of Grace for Me, for Thee, for We
If any person, prophet, priest or preacher tells you that you’re not deserving of God’s love or that God’s grace doesn’t extend to you. They are wrong. Jesus is clear in his proclamation that the kingdom of God calls all people. There’s no exceptions, no asterisks, no legal fine print and no exclusions.
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