I’ll never forget one day I had in Brazil when utter frustration consumed me.  To be honest, I don’t remember exactly what the frustrations were, but I know I was mad about something and it was taking over my thoughts.  I was driving from our apartment to the school where we were teaching, and I was reminded of a song I learned a long time ago that was written ... [Continue Reading]

It’s ironic that I’m writing about tomorrow since yesterday I wrote about today.  The truth is that today sometimes carries with it some incredibly hard circumstances.  Sometimes in today we have to muster up our courage to bury a loved one, to have a difficult conversation, or to face our critics.  And even though the tasks of the day may be defeating or ... [Continue Reading]

There is a thirst that exists in our souls, but often our lives are too full of other things to be able to recognize it.  We keep ourselves busy and distracted with technology and entertainment so that we rarely have those moments of solitude in which our thirst becomes apparent.  We move from one thing to the next with the hopes that we will finally be ... [Continue Reading]

When David wrote Psalm 3, his life was in complete upheaval.  His son, Absalom, was trying to take the kingdom from him, and he was fleeing for his life.  Absalom had turned many of the hearts of the Israelites against his father, and it probably seemed to David as if the whole world was against him.  However, David clung to something that he clung to a ... [Continue Reading]

Every time I read the story of Jesus cursing the fig tree that was bearing no fruit I have this feeling that the act was out of His character.  After all, it wasn’t the tree’s fault that it bore no fruit, and Jesus typically had compassion on the faultless.  However, that is a simplistic view of the purpose of the cursed tree: to serve as a symbol of Israel and ... [Continue Reading]