(Our blog today comes from our precious friend, Laurie, who is learning how to find God's presence in her ordinary day and is inviting you to join her.) Don’t let your biggest regret in life be that you were always in a hurry. That has been a problem for me most of my life. I wrote this poem in July 2025 during new discoveries I was making about God and myself through spiritual direction. Searching in the Shadows, Drowning in the Depths Sometimes I feel like He is: In the dark but too...

The fire has come! The Spirit has been given! What happens next? What did the Spirit’s indwelling them mean to those early Christians? What does it mean for us today? It all began long ago, long before the earth was even created. The Spirit was breathing on the waters. The Spirit was part of the Godhead as the decision was made: “Let us make man in our image”. The Spirit was the breath, as they breathed on the man they had made--Spirit to spirit-- and so life began. All through the centuries,...

God, investigate my life; get all the facts first hand. I’m an open book to You; even from a distance you know what I'm thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight. You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful— I can't take it all in! Is there any place I can go to avoid...