Not the Wilderness, Again!

Why send me into the wilderness?It’s hard…forbidding…scary…hot…empty of anything life-giving. Why did I send Moses, Israelites, John the Baptist, My own Son Jesus.What was in the wilderness? Why me, God?I don’t like it here. He answers me with more questions (like Father, like Son). “Where do you focus on Me?”“Where do you strain to hear… Read More

Transforming Regeneration

The fire destroyed everything: houses, barns, fields, and forest.Gone. Dead. Nothingness. There is nothing left to live for; my life is destroyed.Done. Empty. Nothingness. But God sent rains and sunshine into the nothingness left by the fire;the dying returned their nutrients to the ground in the ashes,and, out of the destruction, new growth appears. My… Read More