"I see you're sitting on MY bench" is what I heard when I sat on a make-shift bench by the lake. Made of a wooden plank placed across two stones, it clearly didn't belong to anyone. Yet as this man and his companion approached, he clearly informed me that he was there the night before … Continue reading Finding A Voice
Sometimes you can be so far off your path that you don't even realize when you had strayed. The world wants to blind us, deafen us, and numb us to God's love. Satan wants us to be occupied with the world, focused on it, and most of all lost in it. This is a photo … Continue reading Spiritual Amnesia
For the past two days I have been doing my best to memorize a bible verse, my first attempt to do so. I've written out each sentence many times, by hand and typed on my laptop. I've read them out loud. I've prayed and meditated on them (also my first time). Even strummed my guitar … Continue reading He First Loved Us
For the first time ever I told one of my best friends to seek Christ and to put his faith in Him. He then asked me if I had, and if I had become a Christian, to which I replied that I had and I was. It was a moment that I knew I would … Continue reading Becoming a Sower
The light shines in the darkness and he darkness has not overcome it.John 1:5 I have this theory that the closer you walk with God, the more the enemy will try to stop you. This can be internal, in the form of self doubt, or external where the enemy influences others to do his bidding. … Continue reading Encountering Evil
Last Wednesday I did something that I wanted to do for over 2 years, but fear had held me back. I kept putting it off, kept dreaming about it, kept coming close, but never followed through. Finally I asked God to give me the strength and courage to follow through on my ambitions as I … Continue reading Letting God Go Before Me
I find that God is sometimes painfully obvious in my life. And I sometimes find myself behaving like a spoiled child towards Him, but I am getting better and luckily His patience for all of us is unending. Last Friday I had to drive to Markham, a city near Toronto, to run an errand as … Continue reading God Is The Gift
It's not often that we get to experience the same level of anxiety as our kids do. My little girl who just started kindergarten last year has been afraid of using the bathroom lately. Ever since she learned about the story of The Great Flood in school she has a fear that the toilet won't … Continue reading The Flood In Our Minds
"You're not good enough." How many times do we hear that voice creep into our minds? Punishing us for wanting something better for ourselves, for wanting to press beyond our defined limits. Limits that we have created through our own perceived low worth. After feeling lifted these past few days I fell into a low … Continue reading The Voice Of Doubt
