Category: Life Notes

Life Notes—August 11, 2011 “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You … Continue reading Designed for Fabulous

Life Notes—August 4, 2011 “Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.  When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him…The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, … Continue reading Limping With Jacob

Life Notes—July 28, 2011 “Will you not revive us again, so that your people may rejoice in you?  Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.”   Psalm 85:6-7  It has been too hot and too humid for too long.  These are the dog days of summer.  My phone’s dictionary defines them … Continue reading In Need of Revival

Life Notes—July 21, 2011 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man, and said to … Continue reading Where Are You?

Life Notes—July 14, 2011 “O Lord, you have searched me and known me.  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.  You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.  Even before a word is on my tongue, … Continue reading Hide and Seek

Life Notes—July 7, 2011 “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.  To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit … Continue reading Of Flesh and Spirit

Life Notes—June 30, 2011 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.  For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  Galatians 5:13-14  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was … Continue reading Freedom For A Purpose

Life Notes—June 23, 2011 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?  Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory … Continue reading How Majestic

Life Notes—June 16, 2011 Sometimes at night, I’d lie awake, longing inside for my father’s embrace; And sometimes at night I’d wander downstairs, pray he’d returned, but no one was there. Oh, how I’d cry, a child all alone, waiting for him to come home… Excerpts from My Father’s Chair by David Meece  This Sunday … Continue reading Who’s Your Daddy?

Life Notes—June 9, 2011 “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested … Continue reading One in the Spirit