Sermon in a Sentence

God made us for so much more than enjoying our stuff.

- Rob Bell

What Do You Think?

I was feeling a need to rearrange the furniture, so to speak, and found this blog design at Aqua Poppy's.

So, what do you think?

Sky Watch Friday - Dusted!

Dusted!

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Thursday 13 - 13 Songs About Rain

First there was too much rain here. Now there is not enough. So I got to thinking about rain.

The word rain seems to symbolize many different things. Here are just 13 (my favorites) of the multitude of songs about rain.


Singin' in the Rain

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

Rainy Days and Mondays

Bring on the Rain



I Love the Rainy Nights

Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain

Have You Ever Seen the Rain

I'm No Stranger to the Rain

Kentucky Rain

Who'll Stop the Rain

Bring the Rain



Smoky Mountain Rain

Songs About Rain

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Wordless Wednesday - What?

What Grammy? I'm not doing anything.

Two for Tuesday - yadseuT rof owT

Be Still and know that I am God.

Psalms 46:19

• Sometimes I feel like it is hard to hear what God is telling me. Sometimes I think He is being stubbornly silent. What I'm discovering, and what is true about some of the decisions I've been trying to make recently, is that it usually isn't that He is silent but that I am not listening. I am not taking time to "be still". I am busying myself with distractions or busying my mind with a barrage of points and counterpoints until all I hear is static. I intentionally, even if unknowingly, create enough noise to avoid hearing what I am afraid to hear - to avoid recognizing if He is asking me to do something I don't want to do or to go a direction that will be hard or uncomfortable for me.

• There are currently lots of things going on in my life that require decisions. Not your run of the mill "what will I fix for dinner" kinds of decisions, but life altering decisions. I have been struggling to make most of them - going back and forth, trying to weigh the positives and negatives of each option and all the potential outcomes and scenarios. The result was having no peace, being frustrated and being no closer to a decision. Then on Sunday at church the pastor talked about how we complicate things rather than keeping them as simple as they actually are. Another young man spoke about a situation where he had to rely on God's guidance which he was only receiving one "step" at a time.

Hmmmmm. Be still, keep it simple, and be willing to take one trusting step at a time. I think I'll try that.

Sermon in a Sentence

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”- Mahatma Gandhi

The truth of this quote that I too often see saddens me.