Living with tension

As I type these words, the sun is shining and the birds are chirping away, worshipping their Creator. I stop to listen. It is beautiful. Our days are waking up with a yawn stretching into what were long winter evenings. Spring flowers surface for air, showing off their beauty. It seems Spring has sprung until the cold winds howl ‘Not quite yet’. In many ways, March teaches us to live with tension. The promise and signs of Spring are there and keep us going, even when the cold makes it feel remote. Tensions feel like a long hall or corridor, a passage taking us from one room to another. It’s that uncomfortable ‘in-between’, not one thing or another; the promise of something and yet that something feeling distant.

Keeping first things first

Happy New Year! I know we’re almost into February but I can still wish you a happy 2024. My prayer for you this year is you will experience God’s holiness, goodness, kindness, and faithfulness in meaningful and powerful ways that will draw you closer to His heart and desires for these days. It is time to embrace the authority and power we carry because the Spirit of the Living God dwells in us. Recently, I was reading through the plagues in Exodus. Most of the miracles Moses did, the Egyptian magicians could copy. When they tried to imitate the plague of gnats, they couldn’t. Their response to Pharoah was, ‘This is the finger of God’.

Peace in the midst of chaos

This time of year can be filled with many mixed memories, emotions, and thoughts. You may love this month, you may not. You may be in a good place, you may not. You may feel at peace. You may feel completely overwhelmed and stressed. I think we would all agree, regardless of how we are feeling, the world is in crisis. Chaos ensues. The enemy would love nothing more than for this chaos to penetrate your heart and take hold of your thinking and living. But God….