Tag Archive: lessons

Tension

Several weeks ago Skip Moen spoke at our church and one of the things he said really struck me.  He said that life is about tension because the areas of tension are the areas where God is working.  When He is filing away the rough edges, that’s tension.  When He’s drawing attention to an area…

Drained

I feel spiritually drained today.  Last night I sat through a particularly ineffective family meeting regarding late-night gaming and sleep deprivation.  Neither party really understood the other side’s argument.  There was much gnashing of teeth, although not much wailing (except for the occasional one by my son who didn’t want to be in bed).  Pretty…

Clay

Jeremiah 18:3-4 So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.  But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so the potter squashed the jar into a lump of clay and started again. Sometimes, when working with clay on a wheel, small lumps…