Tag Archives: jesus

Resisting the Urge to Repay Evil for Evil

Scripture is wise and beautiful and manna for the soul; and all of it crescendos into a unified  eternal truism. Love God and love your neighbor. Six words to guide and counsel humanity; the children of God. Six words that define and describe the essence of life; the very foundation of the cosmos. Six words […]

Grace and Brokenness at Sixty

Today marks my sixtieth birthday and I’m feeling loss and lost; love and loveliness. My life floating and fluctuating in unfamiliar and unexplored seas. For the majority of my life, I knew my purpose. Perform in school, persevere at work and plan for retirement. My societal service accomplished; my sense of self adrift. The world […]

Who Does Your Heart Belong Too?

This existential heading may seem like a strange question to ask of anyone who has been birthed and bathed in the modern world of emancipation, liberation and an insatiable individualism; but it’s THE question every human has hopefully examined even in an otherwise unexamined life. It’s the same question God asks of us every day; […]

Forty Years in the Wilderness: My Return to Church

Like every well-versed Sunday schooler, I learned about Moses and the fickle faith of God’s chosen people. Even after miracle after miracle, they still did not trust in God. Consequently, they wandered for forty years in the wilderness. A story I thought I faithfully comprehended, until I foolishly followed in their footsteps. As a child […]

Love Transcends Scriptural Discernment

While I welcome everyone to my writing, because that is the nature of love, this reflection is specific to my brothers and sisters who call Jesus Lord. Words long overdue, but ones that now require revelation. Revealing not only my heart, but matters that trouble my heart as a believer in the body of Christ. […]

The Empty Tomb Filled with Love

Countless stories have been written about the miracle and marvel of Easter. An act of love beyond all acts of love. The single most important event in the life of Jesus and the single most important event in all of human history. Without this act of love, mercy, grace and generosity, Christianity is nothing more […]

Finding 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.

Judgement, 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 […]

Between 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.