Patience
Finding Rest Outside of Crisis Mode
Our worship leader at Victory Christian Fellowship is a deeply talented young man, able to play multiple musical instruments, and equally able to draw the gathering of worshipers reverently before the throne of God. While I appreciate these qualities in him, I appreciate even more his sensitivity to the fact that, as Christ-followers, we have…
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I strongly dislike waiting. Ours is a quick-service society. We want what we want and we want it now. Instant credit. Overnight delivery. Car insurance in 15 minutes or less. Jimmy John’s “freakishly fast” delivery. Computers that calculate complex equations in the blink of an eye. I find it irritating when I arrive at the…
Read MoreJaywalking in Love
Having secured my cache of pharmaceuticals from Rite Aid, I pulled up to the Guide Meridian looking carefully to my left to see what, if anything, was coming from that direction. The Guide Meridian, widened from two lanes to four for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, is inarguably the busiest arterial in Whatcom…
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