There are intangibles that somehow make all the tangible difference. That which allows people to make progress in life in a discernible way of progress, do so by the intangible. When they talk about hard work or smart work they are not necessarily referring to something that can be measured by the sweat of the […]
Read More Faith for the JourneyThe good thing about seeing my brother again is that it reminds me of just how far we have come. He and I grew up in the same household. We shared the same bedroom for the majority of that time. To this day no other person has an insight on me like he does. Same […]
Read More Love for the JourneyWe were having a conversation about God. Again. In the conversation we looked at how He as the authority spoke creation into being. It responded in the light of His word because He is authority. He speaks and it is. No one has that power. No one. It’s something that makes Him unique as the […]
Read More Hope of Harmony – But Not As We ExpectSome people just don’t get the hint. The way the hints are dropped are sometimes subtle. Yet when it’s not received the first few times, it is made a lot more clearer. Clearer to the point that you have to actively work hard to go against what is obviously being said. There was this guy […]
Read More Taking The HintsIt is one of the most delightful pieces of text committed to manuscript. It’s an outline of what love is and it is the kind of love that transcends what a lot of times we think it is. This passage was read at the wedding of my wife and I and I have also heard […]
Read More About The Three That Remain“It will come.” “How do you know it will come?” “Well I was assured that it will come.” “How do you know you can trust that assurance?” “I’ve been able to trust it before. It has never let me down.” “Just because it hasn’t before, how do you know it won’t now? There’s a first […]
Read More Living in Expectation: An Ongoing ConversationThey messed up her pay and they weren’t going to sort it out. For all the fuss she was making about it, she wasn’t getting anywhere. How can you tell her that He does all things well? One of his daughters was raped. One of his sons killed another of his sons and then spent […]
Read More He Does All Things Well?“That’s not how the story goes, Daddy. Tell them what happened. Tell them the story for real, Daddy.” It was one of those occasions where I couldn’t quite muster up the energy to go through the situation as I had done on umpteen occasions previously. I had delivered a half-hearted and somewhat pathetic recounting of […]
Read More As The Story Goes …It’s an evening in December 2018. I am in the main downstairs room of the home in which I reside. It’s a home located in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, a city towards the upper Midlands of the country between two of the main cities of the country in Manchester and Birmingham. This main room has […]
Read More The Story I Buy Into – All Things NewI mentioned recently about how an incident got the power of the story to my attention in a really distinct way. There were a couple of stories it reminded me of that people buy into. ——— Story One: Glass Half Full Nothing is perfect. Yet look at the tremendous strides we have made over time. […]
Read More The Story You Buy Into – Two Stories
