Lent Day 13: The Joy of Repentance
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This…
Lent Day 12: Don’t Keep Your Problems to Yourself
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come…
Avoid the Door
The dormouse’s nose twitched. Something tasty was nearby. Sure enough, the scent led to a birdfeeder full of delicious seed. The dormouse climbed down the chain to the feeder, slipped through the door, and ate and ate all night. Only in the morning did he realize the trouble he was in. Birds now pecked at him through the feeder’s door, but having gorged on the seed, he was now twice his size and unable to escape.
Doors can lead us to wonderful places—or dangerous ones. A door features prominently in Solomon’s advice on avoiding sexual temptation in Proverbs 5. While sexual…
Lent Day 11: A Prayer of Repentance
Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realising that God’s kindness is…
Lent Day 10: Where is God When Life Hurts?
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.~ Psalm 34:18
Where is God when…
Lent Day 9: Meditating on Psalm 89:38–40
But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one. You have renounced the…
Lent Day 8: Waiting!
"Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!” ~ Isaiah 64:1
“Waiting…
Lent Day 7: When We Mess Up
"So he got up and went to his father.“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw…
Lent Day 6: A Prayer of Lament
"All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. My heart pounds, my strength…
Lent Day 5: God’s Pruning Process
"He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a]…
Lent Day 4: Meditating on Psalm 15:1–3
"Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? The one whose walk is…
Lent Day 3: Broken?
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened…
Lent Day 2: What’s Considered a Sin?
"If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” ~…
Follow the Leader
No words. Just music and moving. During a 24-hour Zumba marathon amid the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of people from around the globe worked out together and virtually followed instructors from India, China, Mexico, America, South Africa, parts of Europe, and several other places. These diverse individuals were able to move together without any language barriers. Why? Because instructors of the exercise craze Zumba, created in the mid-1990s by a Colombian aerobics instructor, utilize non-verbal cues. Class instructors move and students follow their lead. They follow with no words uttered or shouted.
Words can sometimes get in the way and create barriers.…
