• disappointment
    Abundant Life,  Displacement,  Setback

    Suffering Disappointment? Time to Get Reappointed!

    Disappointment comes from an old French word that means to lose one’s position. And isn’t that what disappointment really is? We lose those things to which we feel appointed. If we lose our house, possessions or health, we have lost the kind of life that we thought had been appointed to us. If we lose friends or jobs, we are dis-appointed from friendships and careers that had once been appointed to us. Losses often feel like demotions. Moving to Alaska was obviously somewhat exciting, in both good and bad ways. My husband was certainly realizing a dream to live on the last frontier. But for me, the move represented a…

  • box
    Box,  Featured,  Limiting God

    The God Box and How to Let Him Out

    I imagine everyone has a box inside their minds in which their ideas of God fit nicely. I know that my God box existed, for the most part, completely unconsciously in an unexamined part of my soul. After all, trying to understand who God is a strenuous activity for most of us. I think that for myself, my earliest imaginings turned the idea that man is made in the image of God completely around. I believed, without recognizing that I thought this, that God was just like a man, only much, much larger. My box was designed to keep God safe and knowable. This is a childish view, of course, but…