I re-discovered this post recently via a few related links from something else I had been writing. I really can’t recall how I got there, but as it might have done for you, the title grabbed my attention. I wondered, Now what was I thinking here… Turns out it was one of my more favorite…
Tag: God’s Kingdom
Disappointment
Everywhere I turn these days it seems I am dealing with disappointment. Failure. Unachieved goals, unmet expectations. Nothing is going the way it is supposed to, or like it used to… One disappointment after another. And I’m not just talking about being let down by other people. In fact, I think the disappointments that affect…
The Soul Felt Its Worth
O holy night… the stars are brightly shining. It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth. (With me so far?) Long lay the world… in sin and error pining till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. I was listening to a podcast1 recently (titled, Your Sense of Belonging) where the lyric from…
Children Obey Your Parents
We had an interesting conversation with our teenager the other night. Ian is thirteen. That means he’s officially a teenager. He’s been there—especially in his own mind—for quite a while now, even before the calendar said he was. That’s how he came into the world, actually. He’s usually ahead of the game. And that’s his…
The Illusion of Control
For some reason, though everything tells us otherwise, we all seem to have this illusion that we are in control of our lives and our surroundings. I may be speaking a good deal from my American perspective, but I do feel like it’s more of a human thing than a cultural thing. (We Americans just…
[From The Archive] Peace
This week’s From The Archive was chosen from one of several posts I found that had elements of this theme of “the illusion of control” that has been swimming around my thoughts for some time now. Each of the articles previously published had at least some small perspective on the idea that we are not…
Completely Plagiarized (With References)
Tonight I need to let some other words speak for me. If you’ll permit me, the rest of this post is entirely copied selections from the Bible. (New Living Translation if not otherwise noted.) They are words we are feeling strengthened by today. Perhaps they’ll do so for you, too. (And, does it really count…
Some Things Never Change
Since the beginning of time, young kids have seen the colored tiles—whatever shape they might assume—as an endless playground for the imagination, and an exciting test of their balance and coordination skills. And the Campbell children are certainly no different! Walking the mall with any of our youngest kids is never really walking, it’s traversing….
Yearning For Less
“I wish I had more time!” I am saying that far too often these days. And, it sure seems true when I think it and/or utter it. I am finding that I wake up tired most days, and often go to bed later than I thought I would. And understandably, have much to do in…
Seasons
There is a rhythm to life that I think most of us ignore. The natural rhythm of the seasons. The new beginning, the freshness of life in the spring. The vibrance of life through the long days of summer. The harvest of the fruits of summer’s sun in the fall, and the reminder that rest…