Arise Blog
The Coffee Shop: Faith
How is your faith in God being formed or reshaped within this season of your life?
Maybe your faith in a loving God is just beginning?
Maybe this season is uncertain and dim at times?
Maybe you’ve been attentive to its ongoing slow, sure and steady shaping.
Maybe it is more fullness and energized movements?
Take a moment to gaze out a window or at a flickering candle and listen in to your …
The Senses? Climbing, creativity, and calling.
—Are you anticipating warmer weather soon? While we wait “picking up one of John Muir’s stories the First Summer in the Sierra has been a slow read and great choice. What I found in reading these descriptions…”
—Are you looking for inspiration and deep connectedness between faith and art? Luci Shaw’s writings Breath for the Bones will inspire…
—Is unity possible or worthwhile pursuing? a follow up on last month’s study on peace —offering the question Is Peace and Unity Possible? (I’m still wrestling with THE question to ask, or questions to keep asking)…
The Coffee Shop: Trustworthy
How can I testify to God being trustworthy?
He is Trustworthy
While its winter, I am challenged with writing not by the pond where my previous familiar inspirations would nudge me—for this season of crisp and cold, a coffee shop writing is evolving. A sweet and smiling surprise as I sit here watching faces coming through…
Tune out. Tune in.
In your daily life, do you often find yourself sifting through your own thoughts to find what is?
Real. Clear. Hopeful. Helpful. Engaging. Life-giving.
What do I need to tune out in order to focus on God?