And it’s hard to explain how I feel It won’t go in words but I know that it’s real I can be moving or I can be still But still is still movin’ to me Willie Nelson    This house makes 35 – YEP you read me right –35 houses- that I have lived in…

coal, part 3 read coal (1) read coal (2) … Now let me qualify this. I did not sing a glorious song of praise to the King of Creation in a pitch perfect falsetto. Not even close. I stink at singing. Perhaps I will get to sing in a heavenly choir someday, but here on earth, I am not…

coal, part 2 read coal (1) …So I began to pour myself out to God in prayer. I went systematically down that list and I began to give each of those failures to God. And as I did, He began to minister to me.  He began to bring to my mind scriptures that reminded me…

coal, part 1 I would still consider myself a “baby-Christian.” I have not been doing this Jesus thing all that long. I am struggling still with some of the qualities that go with Christianity; things like patience, virtue, and selfcontrol. I practiced life for a pretty long time the other way, so such godly attributes do…