Tag Archives: Rest

“Imagine there’s no heaven…it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today.” Perhaps the words I just read sound familiar to you. They were the opening lyric to one of the most influential songs in pop history. The young people of the 1960’s &  Continue Reading »

You know those project in your life that seem to always be there and never really make progress? I seem to have many of these. There are things that I have either procrastinated on or that seem to mount faster than I can keep up with them. There are also are those project that are  Continue Reading »

This morning is Sunday. I’ve been up since 3 AM, which is not unusual on a Sunday when I preach. I rise early to pray, prepare, and practice. But if I am honest, there are some Sundays where is it hard to get up at all. I know this is not just a problem for  Continue Reading »

Everyone goes through life with a gnawing sense of unease, an unspoken dread we’ve lived with for so long we hardly know it’s there anymore. It taints everything we do with a strange sense of displacement and dissatisfaction. Even when things are going our way, at the end of the day, alone with our thoughts,  Continue Reading »

How do you kill your giants? That’s right – One  at a time. Yes, there are millions of saying like this, but there is truth in all of them – if we are going to take care of those monstrous tasks before us, we have to just take it one little step at at time.  Continue Reading »