The Creekside "Water Cooler"

so,in all honesty,this scripture defines my experi...

2012-01-25T11:00:56.743-08:00

so,in all honesty,this scripture defines my experience with"call". I want to do what God has created me to do. I don't want to do it
alone,but in community. I'm repeatedly drawn to people who have little to do with church but are ministering to the sick,dying,marginalized in neighborhood. Their song to the homeless,sick,is a melody that resonates with my hearts desire.

This series helped to "gather the random"...

2011-11-24T09:34:08.352-08:00

This series helped to "gather the random" for me. I am seeing this inward piece as a rhythm I can't afford to miss. And my time with God has a new depth because I'm more intentional than random.
I am thankful and grateful for this teaching

I like this!

2011-11-02T09:16:47.267-07:00

I like this!

I have this tattoo around my left my ankle. "...

2011-10-08T06:49:28.218-07:00

I have this tattoo around my left my ankle. "Living the fantasy of being me". I get a sense of the fullness of that when I simply "be" with God in silence. Me, all in, transparent, naked, open to my Beloved. Fully known and fully loved. Me.

I know I've been rescued from what was my lif...

2011-08-09T23:56:47.452-07:00

I know I've been rescued from what was my life. Freer might be the word. Free? Not in my mind completely yet. But more than yesterday. God is faithful.

Considered a heretic, ignored political, religious...

2011-06-16T22:22:41.519-07:00

Considered a heretic, ignored political, religious, cultural "norms" all for love. Then there's forgiveness. And resurrection. He's the one I want to follow. True Love.

Generosity. Selfless. Content. Hoarding. Selfish....

2011-06-10T21:00:18.593-07:00

Generosity. Selfless. Content.
Hoarding. Selfish. Consumer.
I think I'm all six.
There is hope in seeing.
Open my eyes Lord I want to see.
True Love.

When I found out that my Abba, daddy God is for me...

2011-05-31T16:54:13.281-07:00

When I found out that my Abba, daddy God is for me and that I am the apple of his eye it changed everything. Intimacy like I had never known.

I just spent the last half hour or so reading the ...

2010-08-11T10:18:30.072-07:00

I just spent the last half hour or so reading the blog you linked in your blog, Frank Laubach's letters (Letters By a Modern Mystic) about practicing the presence of God he wrote in 1930-31 (although he doesn't use that term). Wow! Thanks for sharing that, Doug! It is so thought-provoking and challenging... If anyone takes the time to read both blogs, they will be better for it.

I'm off to camp with 9th Graders this week. I&...

2009-06-30T23:59:48.661-07:00

I'm off to camp with 9th Graders this week. I'm going to spend this dollar to buy a root beer for a kid... not sure who... but I'll keep it in my back pocket ready to go as I sit down throughout the week with each kid to talk about life what they think of our Creator.
-Peder

I struggle with this subject a lot! I was raised t...

2009-06-29T13:13:49.656-07:00

I struggle with this subject a lot! I was raised to save, save, save... but then that leads to focus on how much I have. Is it selfish to buy a big house? If so, would having people over make it less selfish?

One thing I found after I graduated from college is that one of my spirtual gifts is actually giving. I get a lot of joy from knowing that the money I give to missionaries, for example, lets them do work about which they're really passionate. Sometimes I'm tempted to feel guilty that I've never felt called to a foreign mission field, but I suppose some of us have to be givers or else no one could go! (I know I'm not excused from being missional, but it just happens that "mission trips" haven't been my thing.)

When I find that I'm envious of other people's money, which is really easy for me to do, that's usually a sign to me that I'm not trusting God for my provision, but rather am starting to worship money. While I do feel very blessed by God, I think if I *had* made a million dollars in stock options (which was my college plan ;) ), I would find it much harder to be generous. I'm still learning to be faithful with a few things, because I think money is one of the hardest things to scale up in faithfulness.

Yes...the kids bring our good words and bad ones r...

2009-06-17T15:06:27.868-07:00

Yes...the kids bring our good words and bad ones right to the surface don't they? And when Mommy corrects them and they reply with "But Daddy says it" - that's not good! (Not that that's ever happened at our house. wink)

Improvement...something I can always do...I need t...

2009-06-16T05:55:31.456-07:00

Improvement...something I can always do...I need to be more careful of my words with my boys, and see how they hear them...Andreas is at the age where he repeats things...and when he says things that I have said sometimes it is not the words I want him to be saying...sometimes it is something I don't realize that I say or I don't understand how it sounds till I hear it repeated back at me throught the mouth of an almost three year old....out of the mouths of babies...
But on a good note there is nothing more sweet than when your almost three year old says back to you "I love you mommy" after you have told him....the power of words....that one just melts my heart it if is coming from the three year old, or the almost 9 year old....