As the rhythm of returning began to take root in my life, it started to change how I engaged Scripture. Before this, much of my interaction with the Bible had been centered on reading for understanding or preparing for teaching. Those are important and necessary, but something new was beginning to emerge. Scripture was no…
As I continued to engage the practices, something began to shift in a way I did not expect. Up to this point, I had been focused on the structure. The set times. The readings. The order. These had been helpful, and they had given shape to my days. But slowly, almost quietly, I began to…
As I continued to walk in the rhythm of the Daily Office, I began to experience something that I had been longing for. There was a steadiness forming in my life with God. My days were no longer shaped only by urgency or responsibility. There were moments that invited me to pause, return, and remember….
As that quiet awareness continued to grow, I found myself searching for something more steady in my life with God. Not something new, but something deeper, something that could move beyond moments of inspiration and begin to shape the everyday rhythms of my life. That search eventually led me to one of the Christian practices…
There was a season in my life and ministry when everything seemed to be in place. The work was meaningful. The schedule was active. From the outside, it might have appeared that things were exactly as they should be. But underneath all of that, there was a quiet awareness I couldn’t ignore. Something was missing….