How the divine and the demoniac have opposite conceptions of courage
The demoniac consider standing up to God to be courage, while the divine understand standing up for God to be courage. No one likes to [...]
How our deadlines can work in harmony with God’s timelines
Let our deadlines not blind us to God’s timelines; let them be guidelines that enable us to play our part better rather than to take [...]
How to stop wasting our pain
God will never waste our pain—provided we don’t waste it by feeling sorry for ourselves or feeling angry with God. Pain is one of life’s [...]
How God can use dead ends
What seems to be a dead end for us can simply be, for God, a means to show us that without him, we are dead—and [...]
Why exhaust ourselves by believing in our worries when we can energize ourselves by believing in God’s promises?
When we encounter challenging situations, our minds tend to focus on all the ways things might go wrong. This constant worrying can drain us, filling [...]
Developing Resilience by Changing Our Driving Question
We all need to develop resilience because life is hard—it will knock us down sooner or later. Resilience is largely determined by what goes on [...]
Is God concerned about the things that concern us?
God is indeed concerned about the things that concern us, even when our concerns seem mundane or trivial in a larger spiritual context. During our [...]
What kind of traveling companion is God?
God is not a reluctant or indifferent companion; he is a diligent and transcendent companion. Whenever we travel with someone, we seek to know what [...]
How faith and surrender can empower us to face challenges
Faith enables us to realize that God is on our side, while surrender enables us to put ourselves on God’s side. When we practice bhakti [...]
Focus on our Lord not on our demons
Stop comparing ourselves with our demons; start comparing our demons with our Lord. We all have some self-defeating desires and drives within us, often referred [...]
How we can know peace even in a world that knows no peace
Know that God is working behind the scenes for our good, even when what is happening on the stage doesn't seem to be good. A [...]
The dynamics of the human-divine partnership
Our business is to do what is possible; God's business is to do what, to us, seems impossible. Stop taking over God's business, and stop [...]
How devotional surrender brings enrichment not resentment
How devotional surrender brings enrichment not resentment Devotional surrender means that what our Lord speaks, our heart seeks. The notion of surrender often doesn’t [...]
Stop trying to engineer a life of devotion
A life of devotion is not something to be engineered; it is something to be entered. When we face life’s challenges and try to keep [...]
Our waiting is God’s vetting
To be patient in our faith, know that our waiting is God's vetting. Most of us hate to wait. We live in a culture that [...]
Why the peace from faith does not lead to passivity
The peace that comes from faith does not lead to passivity in action; it leads to purity in vision and intention. When we are faced [...]
When our prayers are unanswered
When a prayer seems unanswered, God is not depriving us of a blessing. He is delivering us to a better blessing. One of the greatest [...]
Are we treating God like a problem-solving machine?
God is not a winning machine where we input rituals of worship and get the results of success. He is a loving person who responds [...]
From the eyes of doubt to the eyes of faith
Doubt sees the difficulties life has brought us to: faith sees the difficulties God has brought us through. When we are faced with difficulties, especially [...]
Healthy relationship with food: Three parameters
Eating is one of life’s most essential and enjoyable activities. It’s essential because we cannot sustain our bodies, and we can't even survive if we [...]
Be upright not uptight be gentle but not fickle
To be upright means to have high moral integrity and resistance to temptation or corruption. On the other hand, to be uptight means to be [...]