Posts Tagged ‘ expectations ’

It’s A New Year

4th January 2017 | 0 Comments

New Year’s Resolutions…do you set a lot of new goals for the coming year? Plans to eat better, exercise more, go to bed earlier, get up earlier, be more organized, read more, etc. etc. etc.  So how is that working out for you? Each year do you look back in December and evaluate whether you’ve […]


What Do You Want Me to Do for You?–Bart’s tale

30th August 2016 | 0 Comments

This is an imaginative re-write of the story found in Mark 10:46-52: It was hot and dusty; I felt my way along the rocky edge of the road, until I found an outcropping of rocks big enough to sit on, out of the way of the road, but close enough I could get a traveler’s […]


What Happens in the Middle

15th July 2016 | 0 Comments

We are a culture of the immediate.  Certainly we don’t want to wait for anything. Any task undertaken is expected to move at a reasonable (of course what determines reasonable) or we get impatient.  Nobody wants to be stuck in the middle. Last week, Marshall and I took a road trip to Canada as a […]


Looking to HIM for Help

10th May 2016 | 0 Comments

When we look to Him for help, we often have a high expectation of what kind of help He will give. Instead of trusting in His goodness and sovereignty it is easy to get sidetracked by our own expectations. As I begged God for help in our family’s situation, I sometimes found myself outlining the […]