(Luke 12:29-32 ESV) Decision-making stresses me out. Luckily, the whole water damage situation (click here to catch up) hasn’t required a single decision yet. Until today. In just a few hours the project manager will arrive, expecting me to have chosen wood to replace the downstairs floors. The goal is to closely match the wood…

(Matthew 16:21-23, Luke 24:44-45 TLB) Sometimes a verse stops me cold.  Urges me to park, roll the windows down, and listen hard. Until I hear what I’m meant to hear there. Today’s verse can feel like a harsh rebuke, but I don’t hear it that way.  Instead, I hear an invitation. To shift a mindset.…

(Mark 16:12 KJV) Two Mondays ago, literally as my blog about being swept away is posting (click here to catch up), I am being swept away . . . In a flood. Caused by a waterfall. Inside my house. At 2 AM. What sounds like rain rushing down a rain spout in a heavy downpour…