Thank you for journeying with me these last eleven weeks! We did it! We’ve looked at twenty examples of biblical look up sometimes encounters, listened to songs, watched videos, and absorbed scriptures. And please know…
Category: Look Up for 31 Days
Day 30 – Love Jesus & Get Stoned
I woke up with a sense of dread carried over from the previous day. It hung over me like Eeyore’s rain cloud. As I lay in bed, not wanting to get up, all I could think was I’m stuck. Stuck in fear. Staying in bed was a dead end. I had to have enough faith to walk out the bedroom door and live this day. Wasn’t that the lesson God taught me…
Day 29 – The Best is Yet to Come
“Look!” The kids giggled again. There, nestled between a mini Hershey bar and a tiny box of Dots was the plastic baby Jesus. And I thought, they’ve got it right: Jesus is the sweetest present yet to come. The kids’ irresistible urge to know what comes next and see the sweetness of things ahead…
Day 28 – When You Need Some Serious Life-Giving Power
It was the first morning temperatures really dropped, and the kids and I were going nowhere fast in a car that wouldn’t start. “So much for being on time,” I said, and slumped back against the seat. I was trying to take the kids to school. Which neighbors could give us a jump? Weren’t they all…
Day 27 – The Solid Rock Invites a Stone Toss
The pastor bent down, straightened, and emerged behind the pulpit holding a two-by-four that extended about six feet in front of him! He held it to his eye while he quoted Matthew 7:5. Startled laughter, including my own, rippled through the pews. I relaxed slightly, despite myself. But when I heard him pause, I felt sick. Here it comes…
Update, Feedback & Election
Hello dear friends! I wanted to take a moment to update you on the Look Up for 31 Days series. First, I’m sorry if I left you hanging! The series obviously did not get completed in October, like I’d hoped. However, I don’t consider it a failure at all! The material has made me more excited about the topic than…
Day 26 – When This Little Light of Mine Doesn’t Feel Like Enough
I realized WE are the light of the world – God’s children. And I thought about matches. They don’t light until struck. And I wondered if the struggles that have struck us are God’s tool to shine more brightly through us. If our God is a consuming fire, and He is in us, we have nothing to fear: He will…
Day 25 – Take Grace
Ann Voskamp wrote the bestseller One Thousand Gifts — gratitude precedes the miracle. She highlights Jesus giving thanks before he feeds the five thousand. The Broken Way, is based on Jesus breaking the food before distributing it. My observation focuses on the two actions before either thanking or breaking…
Day 24 – Beauty & the Beast
There are some striking similarities between the beloved fairy tale Beauty and the Beast and the biblical account of King Nebuchadnezzar…
Day 23 – Doing Things Differently
Doing things differently isn’t easy. That’s why I think the stories I heard growing up about Joshua and the battle of Jericho don’t do it justice. There’s an internal agony that rages a whole battle of its own when you venture out into the unconventional…