Beyond The Rim…

One interesting side effect of this effort at developing a more disciplined prayer life has been that I have begun to pray over my wife in the morning before we leave for work. It is not something I did before,…

Discipline is about doing what you said you would do, even when there are many reasons or excuses not to. It is about writing this meditation each night, even though at times I would rather just go to bed. Discipline…

I just finished the draft submission of my first project. I haven’t worked that hard in years, but it is just the beginning. That is one course partway done, seven more to go. I have never been afraid of hard…

I got an interesting question/statement from my friend Paul O’Rear. It’s one thing to look up in the dictionary for what prayer is, and another thing to hear from our contemporary church what prayer is, but what is it that…

The Second Sunday of Lent and our second respit from the discipline of Lent. I usually try to relax on Sundays, use it as a real day of rest, especially now that I am working long hours trying to meet…

In the books I have read on prayer over the years, the thing that seems to be missing is the fact that prayer is really hard work. Most of the books focus on the spiritual and intellectual aspects of prayer…

Dear God. Regular, consistent, prayer is hard. I would find it hard to talk at length with anyone every day. I am not sure why, but as I look back at my life I find this to be true. It…

I am still thinking about my lack of disciplined prayer. I am not saying I don’t pray, but it is far from a discipline. There are 209 occurances of the forms of the word pray in the King James Old…

Perspective. I have been thinking about what it is that separates the way believers and un- or not yet-believers view the Bible. Not the text of the Bible per se, but the message that the text reveals. It is obvious…

The problem with being tired is that you fall back on patterns, the easy ruts of life that take the least energy to navigate. I guess you could say it is a way to find out some things about yourself….