Daily Choices. Spirit Over Flesh. Proverbs 24:16
Open Hands · Week 1 · Sunday · STRESS I have read Genesis for probably over 20 years and mostly skipped the strangest sentence in it. Jacob sends everything he owns across the river — two wives, two maidservants, eleven…
Go Back In · Week 5 Complete · The series continues I want to end this series with the worst I have ever felt at work, because it is the truest thing I know about going back in. September 11,…
Go Back In · Week 5 · Friday This person is certain they have been quietly taken off the list. Nobody made it official. After the failure, they simply assumed their place was gone — the family gathering, the ministry,…
Go Back In · Week 5 · Thursday He is older now, and he is carrying something old — a failure from years back, the kind that changed a relationship or ended one. The remorse never left. But over the…
Go Back In · Week 5 · Wednesday She left a room she used to belong in — a church group, a team, a circle of women who had been close — after a failure everyone there saw. Not a…
Go Back In · Week 5 · Tuesday A while back this person covered one small thing. A number that did not quite add up, a task not actually done, a corner quietly cut — and one small, almost reflexive…
Go Back In · Week 5 · Monday He is in his thirties, and there is a room he used to be himself in — a team, a group, a table where he spoke up and was known for what…
Go Back In · Week 5 · Sunday For four weeks we have watched people stand at the edge of a room and decide whether to walk back in. This week the man at the edge is Peter, and the…
Go Back In · Week 4 Complete · The series continues Many years ago I left an eleven-year career and started over at the bottom of a different field — one I had a degree for and no standing in…
Go Back In · Week 4 · Friday All week the choice has belonged to people reaching up for a seat. Today it belongs to the one already sitting in it. He had the authority for real — not a…