God said, ‘My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.’
And Moses said to God, ‘If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from here.
— Exodus 33:14–15
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. — Isaiah 55:1a
I am parched, I am dry, I am barren. I am thirsty.
We get thirsty a lot. I don’t believe the eight cups of water a day, and I don’t really believe the one ounce of water for every two pounds either…
I am not a stranger to heartbreak. I’ve been through the wringer a number of times, with moves, relationships, rejections, and losses. I always expect that next time I will cope with it better, since I’ve had experience, but there always seems to be a new facet to the next one. A new way to turn the screw just…
I have come to a realization: Listening is one of the hardest things to do in this world. We speak, and we presume that we communicate, but we all speak different languages, even though, here, we call it all English. There is a language barrier between each of us. It is not because we didn’t…