my highway to zion

starting my day off with a good cry, thanks to this video. oh, how he loves us!!! glorious :) (thanks zana for sending this to me)

“The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.” -Hudson Taylor

I don’t know what it is with me and road trauma these days, but I keep having experience after experience with really bad drivers killing or nearly killing people around them. First it was the old man who died on the road shortly after getting hit by the red sports car. Then a few days later, after work, I passed a body on the road. Clearly a dead one. Apparently an accident occurred right next to the woman, who was standing on the side of the road. She got hit and died. She was 84. Then Monday night I had dinner at a delicious new fish and chips restaurant in Kalk Bay. While we were there, we noticed 3 ladies dancing around in a drunken stupor. As we drove home, we realized we were behind these same ladies driving themselves over the mountain. The car swerved left to right. They turned their blinker on to the left, then to the right, then off again. They slowed down to 20 kilometers, then sped up and drove off quickly. As we followed them over each hill, they would slowly swerve to th...

Every Tuesday night around 7, I see the sunset from the same venue. It’s a beautiful thing. It gets me every time. I get to look out of these HUGE windows in this 2nd story room overlooking Capricorn to my right, and the mountain range of Table Mountain straight in front of me. It is over these mountains that the sun sets each day—at least each Tuesday. I tell all the people I am with “come, look at the sky.” And I always follow it with “we live in the most beautiful place on earth.” We really do. This is beginning to sound like an advertisement for south African tourism. You would be amazed if you saw the sunsets here. the sky is so dramatic, going from bright hot pinks and oranges to yellows and reds. Then you turn your head for 5 seconds and when you look back, the colors are moving over the mountain on their way to bless more onlookers. So, today is Thursday and I happened to be near the same spot I see the sun set on Tuesdays. I noticed it was the same—the same colors and the sam...

the other day I priced tweezers. I don’t remember buying a pair before, and was astounded to see they can be as expensive as a night at the movies! $20.00 for a metal thing that removes small things in our skin? so I settled for the cheap pair. However, I went out on a limb and did something crazy—I bought the kind that are pointed at the ends like pencils. I rarely buy things that don’t seem practical to me, especially when I am broke. But the package convinced me that I needed these sort of tweezers because they claimed they could pull out even invisible hairs from your eyebrows. Wow. I wondered if they could pull other invisible things out of my life: like bad habits and character traits that annoy people around me but I’m completely unaware of. I figured tweezers weren’t going to solve all my problems, but for $4 I confidently left with my razor-sharp pair. I regretted my decision almost immediately. Rather than pulling hairs out, I found they were so pointed that they almost seeme...

Said one traveler to another: “I have come a great distance to listen to the words of the Teacher, but I find his words quite ordinary.” “Don’t listen to his words. Listen to his message.” “How does one do that?” “Take hold of a sentence that he says. Shake it well till all the words drop off. What is left will set your heart on fire.” -Anthony deMello

there is this guy named curry blake. he is considered by some to be an expert on healing, and on the life of this other guy named john g lake. i had not heard either of these names until a few weeks ago. i am involved in a church here that god is really pouring his spirit out on...we've had so many great things happening and really amazing speakers come from all over the world. so, this guy curry blake is coming to my new church in a few weeks time. here is a story from his life. it touched me, after my recent experience with the dead man on the road: When my youngest daughter was 7 years old, she fell from a second story window onto a concrete patio. When I reached her, she was dead. I picked her up and walked around the patio saying, "In the Name of Jesus, you will live and not die." This continued for over five minutes. I walked into our dining room and placed her on the floor, propping her up against a wall. She was still dead, with no heartbeat, and no breath. M...