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"Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu (Chinese Philosopher) Sometimes I wonder what it would look like if we didn't push against the forces over which we try to wrangle control. I notice more and more how exhausting it is to try to make everything fit - my time, my order, my space. It's almost as if I'm trying to create my own world with power I don't have, and with resources I cannot tame. Every page of scripture points to YHWH reminding us that H

Many of us who drive nowadays have used what is known as the Global Positioning System, or GPS . The GPS is a U.S.-Government owned facility that “provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.”  For those of us who have taken road trips before the popularity of the GPS, we would recall using a website called Mapquest , where we would input our starting point and our destination, and print out map directions. Still others who are older than this may r

Jesus coming to earth was the reconciliation of heaven and earth; a correction to the separation that resulted from our sin in the Garden of Eden. When he prayed “Your kingdom come” He was expressing God’s kingdom is established here on earth with His arrival; that His will be done on this side of the kingdom as it’s done in heaven. It’s a prayer that calls us to be brought into a lifestyle that mirrors what humanity was like before sin. Heaven isn’t just about a future time

I am Durel. I have a story to tell. It is written and being written. A tree and a seed. Everyone has a story. Let me begin to share mine. The name Durel carries with it a vision of deliverance through troubled waters. "The water is troubled; deliverance is come" . These were the words given to my mother as she thought of how to name me. There have been many troubled waters. Yet - somehow - I had to learn to sense the stillness where deliverance rests. In the stillness I learn