Just published 2:47 a.m. A devotional from the late night hours when doubt lurks and Father’s presence overcomes. “2:47 a.m. and fully awake again. I had options – try and go back to sleep, lie still and stew until dawn, or take it to Father. I fired off questions, requests, demands and sometimes-angry ravings […]
“Happy Holidays” – Is that a Challenge?
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Confession – I have been so tempted to make it one. Don’t these people (I sound like Ross Perot!) have the guts to say Merry Christmas? Are they more concerned about offending a few while alienating the many? Where is their commitment, their loyalty, and their faith? As I was stewing, the still small voice […]
Who Am I?
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I’m going to risk sharing another piece of 2:47 a.m. It is one of my actual written prayers – by far the longest and one of the most meaningful and impactful to me. It flowed to me with remarkable clarity over two different nights, several months apart. Since I added further explanation after the prayer and response, […]
Doubtstorms – feedback desired
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The following draft is from my latest writing effort – 2:47 a.m. – Awake, Anxious & Fearful, a collection of late night writings resulting from the realization that for most of my life, my prayers consisted mainly of me firing off questions, requests, demands and sometimes-angry ravings heavenward, but seldom, very seldom, waiting or listening for […]
…Until I Met a Man With No Legs
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Sunday was busy, busier than normal. Saturday was the homecoming dance and my little girl somehow got old enough to go. Ross was back from school, Amy and I had a wonderful time fellowshipping with friends late into Saturday night and we still wanted to spend some time with each of the kids before homework […]
Slow Down
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Early morning finds me walking in Livingston State Park, clearing my head and communing with Father before I get back to finishing 2:47 a.m. Spending a few days in seclusion to work on the book, I still need to quiet my mind each morning from the noise and busyness that have always been in my […]
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Since we haven’t posted in awhile, I thought I would kill two birds with one blog – update y’all on our China trip and share a draft of an introduction to chapter 4 of a book I have been working on these past couple of months called 2:47 a.m. ############# When our daughter Sara turned fourteen, […]
State Fairs, Junk Food and Eternity
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“Be in the world but not of the world.” That piece of wisdom has been around for as long as vacation bible school has doled out red Kool-Aid with Oreo cookies – one of my earliest memories from the basement classrooms at the Church of Christ in Union, Iowa. Truthfully, I had to look the […]
Fear, Type One and Type Two
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When was the last time the icy cold grip of fear grasped you in the wee hours of the morning? A 3:30 a.m. cold sweat before an important presentation or job interview? A sudden wakefulness as a Niagara Falls of life’s questions washes over your unprepared and undefended psyche? You are not the first nor […]
