The Cost of Love
If you’ve loved greatly, given greatly, invested greatly, your heart’s going to break when your loved one goes away…
How it Feels to be a Published Author
My moods go up and down. I wake up happy, remembering my book has been realized, and then plummet when I think of the chore of self-promotion…
At Last! My Memoir is Ready!
A new memoir and a new chapter!
58. Hiking in Hebrews: The Last Chapter
Many seasons have passed as I’ve written this series, and my actual mountain has been spring-green, dust-baked, crunchy-leaf-brown, and snow-covered as we’ve circled twice around the sun…
57. Hiking in Hebrews: Two Camps, Two Cities
WE suffer not for here, but for the eternal city where we truly belong…
56. Hiking in Hebrews: Empathy and Purity
I haven’t wept like that in a long time…
55. Hiking in Hebrews: Angels and Brothers
The open heart of Jesus, receptive to every stripe and color of humanity, must be reflected in our hearts and lives…
54. Hiking in Hebrews: Will You Remain?
What will remain? Only those who’ve listened and obeyed…
Adventures in Consciousness
Is this what it’s like to lose your mind? Or am I simply reconsolidating?
53. Hiking in Hebrews: Four Vital Verses
In our massively divided world, the command to live at peace with everyone seems next to impossible…
52.Hiking in Hebrews: That Discipline Thing
It’s when the discipline stops that we need to be worried…
Inside My Wildest Dreams
This week’s dreams have been unusually intense…
51. Hiking in Hebrews: The Joy Set Before Us
Too many people don’t get this. They view Jesus’ death as a tragic mistake…
50. Hiking in Hebrews: A Great Cloud of Witnesses
Being under pandemic lockdown hasn’t helped. It’s like we’re walking a treadmill, unsure about the future…
49. Hiking in Hebrews: The World was not Worthy of Them
Would WE willingly live destitute, dressed in rags and animal skins, wandering in caves and holes in the ground?
Unseasonal
I’m not depressed, exactly, but I’m not my bouncy old self, either…
48. Hiking in Hebrews: A Prostitute, a Lockdown, and a Living Faith
She risked her life for two strangers, and her ‘welcoming’ was a full embrace of the one true God…
47. Hiking in Hebrews: Choosing and Refusing
These are not only one-time -only decisions, but ongoing choices to keep swimming in the opposite direction…
Dandelion Wars
I don’t want to be enslaved to a patch of grass, but I also don’t want to be the neighborhood dandelion factory…
46. Hiking in Hebrews: No Ordinary Child
God orchestrates the world’s second-greatest rescue tale based on a mother’s instinct…
45. Hiking in Hebrews: A Quiet Faith
Be not like the Gentiles, who panic, hoard, and fear-monger..
Am I Doing This Right?
“God bless everyone and keep the whole world safe.” It seems the safest prayer–and also the laziest.
44. Hiking in Hebrews: My Heart’s Desire
Sometimes we pray and pray for the desire of our hearts, only to watch as our dreams remain dreams…
43. Hiking in Hebrews: The Rootless Life
I’ve often felt like an alien and stranger on earth, and even pitied myself for not belonging anywhere…
42. Hiking in Hebrews: Sole Contender
I’m sure this time of slowing down is prompting a lot of soul-searching, even among believers….
41. Hiking in Hebrews: Things Not Seen
Once marked, he told me I’d belong to the devil forever…
40. Hiking in Hebrews: How to Make God Happy
Above all, he loved God, talked about God, and pursued God with all his heart. That’s the person I fell in love with..
39. Hiking in Hebrews: The Great Faith Chapter
What demonstrates your faith, or makes you different from your good-hearted, non-Christian neighbor?
38. Hiking in Hebrews: Tossing and Saving
I like to make people happy when I clean, not furious…
37. Hiking in Hebrews: Fortune Cookie Dreams
Last week I opened a fortune cookie and got the message I’ve been waiting for…
36. Hiking in Hebrews: More Harm than Good
Attitude is everything when it comes to pleasing God…
35. Hiking in Hebrews: A Permanent Gift
20 years on, my eyes are showing their age…but my salvation is as intact as ever.
34. Hiking in Hebrews: The Stain of Sin
It’s not popular to talk about sin these days, unless we’re pointing out the folly of others and giving it different names…
33. Hiking in Hebrews: A Heavenly Blueprint
Nowhere are we told to build magnificent church buildings or cathedrals…
32. Hiking in Hebrews: A Superior Deal
Watching your child fight against God is the greatest pain a parent can experience, short of losing your child to death.
31.Hiking in Hebrews: Remember Lot’s Wife!
You might relate to this if you come from a religious background, one that focused on the externals but missed the Relationship…
30. Hiking in Hebrews: Pies, Perishables, and Perfection
His sacrifice is complete, and its eternal worth is permanently credited to our spiritual accounts…
29. Hiking in Hebrews: The Perfection Conundrum
When God looks at a true Christian, he sees not a sinner, but the perfection of his Son, covering us completely.
28. Hiking in Hebrews: Lessons from Levi
All the genes and chromosomes that make you “you” were blended for generations to produce God’s ultimate product: YOU!
27. Hiking in Hebrews: A Mysterious Encounter
I can recall many long-ago moments when God planted ‘seeds’, impressions and experiences that would eventually lead me to Him.
26. Wrestling with the Promises: Part 2
Impatience defeats faith, if we let it.
25. Hiking in Hebrews: Wrestling with the Promises
At the nadir of my journey, I felt bankrupt. Which of these promises could I point to and say, “God is faithful”?
24. Hiking in Hebrews: Serving the Saints
Bringing others to faith isn’t the ONLY measure of spirituality….
23. Hiking in Hebrews: Elementary Teachings
Yes, the depth of our knowledge of God will grow over time, but an inadequate view of God makes for a shaky foundation.
22. Hiking in Hebrews: You Ought to be Teachers
Every teacher starts as a neophyte; we learn as we go….
21. Hiking in Hebrews: Our Great High Priest
If you grew up in certain religions, you might be triggered by the word “priest”…
20. Hiking in Hebrews: The Throne of Grace
You can return all your self-help books, cancel the workshop you were going to attend, and lay off the self-medicating…
1. Hiking in Hebrews: An open invite!
Why not share my little nuggets and insights with you? Why not blog my way through Hebrews, letting these thoughts and verses spark some discussion?
Purple Splash of Glory 