Tag: discipline
-
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
My wife and I had what seems like two sets of three kids. The longest gap between the kids is between #3 & #4. It’s almost two years – which, at the time, was a long time for us. And there, at the beginning of round two, was Jonathan. We called him Scrawny Jonny for…
-
Text Message Prayer
This may seem strange, but I realized as I was reading from one of E. M. Bounds’ classics on prayer (Purpose in Prayer), that my prayer life is much like a text message conversation. I run through the mayhem of each day offering up spurts of prayer.
-
Overcoming Inertia
But why is it that the positive disciplines of life are so hard to pick back up one we drop them? Could it be that Newton’s first law of motion has a spiritual/emotional layer of truth as well as the physical?
