Tag: Focus

• Focus

  

  This week’s blog took a really wide and circuitous route before coming around to this topic.  Last night’s 7 Pillars group also helped me settle into it.  Thank you, Gentlemen.  The lesson has one of my all time favorite (true) stories in it (7 Pillars of Freedom, Pillar 3, Lesson 1, pg. 80.  See Book…

  A Grace Disguised, addict, amputation, catastrophic, Drunk Driver, Ephesians, Focus, Gerald Sittser, hope, idols, Matthew, nightmare, Philippians, Romans, Sunrise

• Dry Valleys

  

  The July 25th Psalm (see “The Songs of Jesus” in the Resources) was Psalm 84:5-8 where it speaks of walking through the “Valley of Baka” – a valley with no water.  Dry.  Parched.  Stretched.  No life-sustaining moisture.  Spiritually speaking, a perceived absence of the Presence of God. When I look back on my life I’ve…

  Baka, Focus, Grace, Spiritual Dryness