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  • how to pray...

    When you remember that nobody addressed God as Father in that time, Jesus' instruction to us to begin prayer by saying, "Our Father..." takes on a new light. We remember that there is a great connection to God that was o…

  • Glorious Loneliness

    Pastoral leadership is a learning position I have come to learn, but one lesson I am slowly learning is the need of withdrawal and daily solitude. Solitude as a place of heart as opposed to a set physical space! It is …

  • 4 years

    Davenport, California, population about 350, staying at the Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn. It is a great little tiny town on the Highway 1. It's our 4 year wedding anniversary. I sit out on the deck on a hand…

  • Identity Theft

    A warning to all people who know me: my identity has been stolen. Be careful when you see "PC" because you need to determine who you are actually talking to. My identity has been stolen by an impostor, and the impostor…

  • In Abba's Embrace

    "The hand of God does not hold the man nearer, clasped in its grip, but sets him free, and its creative power becomes the longing love of the Creator for the creature." - Bonhoeffer This Bonhoeffer quote is a great imag…

  • Trust Abba

    I wonder how much of my trust in God, the Father of my soul, is theoretical and verbal. Has my trust in Abba grown strong enough to get rid of fear? Enough to banish my worry and my doubt? Do I trust God enough to liv…

  • experience of absence

    My Joy,I am here to speak with you, and I am here to place my thoughts, my emotions, my senses, my heart, and myself exposed so you may see everything. Please search me and see me. Please know me as I am at this time, …

  • Somehow

    If I am honest, I seldom feel the presence of God in prayer or elsewhere. If I am genuine, I often come to prayer to the absence of a sense that God met me tenderly in return. If I am sincere, I frequently come to mee…

  • Confidence

    Father, Please work within my life that I can be confident in prayer. I am not asking for powerful and forceful prayer habits in this request. I am asking that you begin to work within my spirit a true sense of being …

  • love and trust

    We trust someone because we love them. It does not work the other way around. We do not try to trust someone so that we can love them. It would not be very loving or trusting to do it that way. Trust has to be risky …

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