God reaches out and changes us, if we let Him.

All growth requires an external source of power. These two beans sat dormant for years.  One week later, the one on the left was still just a bean,  dormant and seemingly dead for all practical purposes.  The one on the right came to life.  What caused this dramatic difference?  Just a little water. Once touched […]

Some journeys require faith in a power beyond your own. I was corresponding with a friend, an atheist, trying to explain my new faith in God through Christ.  After two months of writing, I had yet to succeed in getting her to understand the meaning of knowing Christ as a personal savior.  She had recently […]

Is God to souls as we are to cells? Sometimes it’s hard to believe that God can actually be in touch with us as individuals, to hear our prayers.  Even though I felt I my life had been touched and changed by God, I struggled with this concept.  In a moment of prayer, as I […]

It’s not yours unless you believe it’s yours. A child was born to a very rich king, but they were separated shortly after the child’s birth.  The king greatly loved all his children and wanted this son to share in his life and wealth.  He left messages throughout the entire kingdom to tell him that […]

Two like poles repulse one another. So do two “higher” intelligences. Have you ever played with magnets?  Put the opposite poles of two magnets together and they attract.  Put the like poles of two magnets together and they repulse.  Put them close enough together with freedom to act independent of all other influences and they […]

Are you fluent in the language of your soul? “It’s all Greek to me!” is an expression used to mean that one finds something to be totally incomprehensible and meaningless. That’s the way the Bible was to me for almost forty years.  I remember as a twelve-year-old taking Saturday morning confirmation classes that it seemed […]

Is God just for the weak? You’ve written and re-written your resume.  You’ve carefully selected your best suit or outfit.  You smile and offer a good, firm handshake.  You know that to be successful, you must have them believe that nobody can do this job better than you can.  You are strong and confident. You […]

Sometimes it pays to read the instruction manual. The blinking 12:00 on the VCR may not tell us the time, but it does tell us something else: The VCR has been disconnected from its source of power, and Its owner must have lacked either the time, concern or knowledge to make it right. I found […]

Once I became an adult, I began to participate in activities reserved for adults; drinking, watching adult movies, etc.  It certainly seemed like the “natural” thing, and the “adult” thing, to do.  This is what I waited for, right?  In time though I began to see that perhaps drinking wasn’t all it was cracked up […]

“Jesus saves.”  I’d seen these words for years, sometimes on signs on the highway, sometimes just scrawled on a building or bridge in spray paint.  I always thought it was just the work of some simple-minded religious nut.  Jesus saves who from what, and how?  He’s been dead for 2,000 years, right? I always thought […]

Read Sailboats and Rowboats before reading this story. Today was a new beginning for Bud, the first day in a new journey. He had been preparing for this for months, maybe years, and was quite sure that he had found the key to the life of peace he had always wanted. He pulled his boat […]