September #jammed: Free Grace. Day 269: Beads up and rolls off. “Let someone else praise you…” Proverbs 27:2 Spread out across the driveway, we scrubbed and sealed and patched the long piece of snap-adorned fabric to ready it for the season. Boat canvas. A high-maintenance cover to protect it’s high maintenance counterpart. Every boater knows that all of […]

September #jammed: Free Grace. Day 268: Down but not out. “The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.” Now let’s be clear: it’s not the one who commends himself who is approved; it’s the one whom the Lord commends. 2 Corinthians 10:17-18  Temporary separation stretched into an unknown prison of solitude. Chronic pain …drained. As sanity slowly seeped […]

September #jammed: Free Grace. Day 267: Calm in chaos. “ There is no fear in love.” 1 John 4:18  “How was your day?!” I routinely asked as my two daughters flung open the doors and clamored with chatter. As she set her book bag down and clicked her seatbelt, my older daughter suddenly became serious … “My head really […]

September #jammed: Free Grace. Day 266: Slowed to a stop. “I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.” Galatians 2:2  The empty pages smelled like a slice of heaven. I couldn’t wait to fill the pages full of miles and routes, splits and workouts. But it wouldn’t be that […]

September #jammed: Free Grace. Day 265: The Steps that Fit. “This is the kind of life you’ve been invited into, the kind of life Christ lived. He suffered everything that came his way so you would know that it could be done, and also know how to do it, step-by-step.” 1Peter 2:21 (MSG) Wobbling, wobbling, teetering and tottering […]