Have you ever had times when you notice apathy starting to creep into your work? Maybe you’re in a difficult work environment, under lots of stress, work for a difficult boss, deal with demanding (and sometimes inconsiderate) customers, feel like you’re surrounded by incompetence…You’re feeling underpaid, undervalued, and just weary from the daily grind.
I used to work for a railroad. The engineer on a train has a huge responsibility to safely operate and move that train over sometimes difficult terrain and in all kinds of weather. When you have a train roughly a mile (or more) in length, hauling over 10,000 tons of freight, running in excess of…
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port Aboard this tiny ship…”
ME: “Lord, if it be Your will, make me into a vessel that You can use.” MYSELF: “But, to become like Christ means we are to share in His suffering!” ME: “Lord, if it be Your will, make me into a vessel that You can use.” MYSELF: “But, pain and suffering is not a cup…
I wrote “Scooping Up Manna” on March 3rd, 2011 as an entry in my private journal during a time of great internal struggle and turmoil over whether or not I would choose to be obedient to follow after God. This poem is based on the Biblical account found in Numbers chapters 13 and…
