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A Rest That Surpasses All Understanding
The LORD set his heart on you. // Deuteronomy 7:7 My spring was unusually full, traveling nearly every weekend, January through April, to speak and lead retreats. And these were...
Be in One Place Together
The Spirit enabled them to proclaim. // Acts 2:4 My prayer group meets every two weeks. Just seven of us, we meet faithfully over video conference to discuss our prayer...
Set Your Seal Upon Me
“What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” // John 6:28 My sister was trying to make a difficult decision. She went back and forth, weighing the consequences...
Multiply
“I will demand an accounting for human life.” // Genesis 9:5 A few years ago, my older brother, now in his sixties, married a lovely woman, a widow somewhat younger,...
Lighting Up the Nation that Lives in Your House
I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. // Isaiah 49:6 My father, 94, and mother, 89, make...
My Lover Speaks
Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come . . . let me see you, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet and you are lovely. //...
Making Straight the Path
“Thus were the paths of those on earth made straight.” Wisdom 9:18b. Wisdom knows to wait gracefully on the Lord. I, on the other hand, not so much. When my...
We Cannot Assume Malice
“Woe to you . . . you hypocrites.” // Matthew 23:23 Some hypocrisy is born of sheer malice—and some from ignorance and stupidity. On the day that Roe v. Wade...
Lean into His Allure
I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. // Hosea 2:16 The first time I ever went on retreat, I was in the sixth grade. I...
Don’t Be a Clucking Hen
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. // Galatians 5:13 We’d just had the extraordinary privilege to attend a three-day congress at the Vatican in honor of the twentieth anniversary...
Resting Under His Fire
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire . . . to rest on each one of them. // Acts 2:3 Some months before my book Jesus Approaches was...
Receive the Father
“Whoever receives me, receives the one who sent me.” // John 13:20 My meditation went like this: I’m with Jesus, and He wants to take me to the Father. I’m...
