Author: Jocelyn
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Experimenting with the Difficult Things in Life
I’ve decided to try a bit of an experiment in my life right now. I don’t know how it’s going to turn out, and I’m sure a lot of people already do this, but maybe you don’t so maybe it’s worth sharing. It comes from an observation I’ve made about myself lately: I mostly resist…
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4 Refreshing Ways to Read/See the Bible
Our family regularly keeps up with a YouTube channel called “Smarter Every Day.” In one episode, its engineer-founder, Destin, was given a bike and challenged to ride it by his conniving welder friends. It was a regular bike in every way, except for one thing: the welders had reversed the steering column (to turn the…
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2016 Book Reviews, part 3 of 3.
Hello and welcome to the third and final installment of my 2016 book reviews. These links will take you back to read part 1 and part 2. Don’t forget to comment or email me with your best books that you think I should add to my 2017 list. Once again, here’s my 5* scale: * Meh…
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2016 Book Reviews, part 2 of 3.
Here is your second installment of my 2016 book reviews. Is there something I could share or comment on that would make these book reviews more helpful for you? Feel free to comment with ideas. Well, here we go. The middle 7. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf. 1927. 310 pages. ** Fiction. A quirky novel…
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2016 Book Reviews, part 1 of 3.
Happy end of the year to you! It is time for my annual book reviews posts. This year they’ll come to you in three sets of seven, wrapping around the corner of 2016-2017. On the last post, I’ll let you know my “I insist!” Book List recommendation, the book(s) I read in 2016 that I think everyone ought…
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Magnify :: Magnificat
Mary’s Magnificat is a famous song / poem during Advent. You might have read it before. It is Mary’s recorded response to the many absurd events that had happened in her life surrounding her pregnancy with Jesus (an angel appearing to her to tell her that she would be pregnant though a virgin; Mary’s cousin…
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People Posture. Spiritual Formation series, part 7.
As I have let Jesus continue to spiritually form me, I have noticed a great – perhaps singular – change in my posture toward people. My old posture assumed: that most people have a good and happy life, that they have it mostly ‘all together’ that my job was to get those people to give…
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Prayer is presence to the presence of God…
Or: Never judge a book by the outdated author pics on its back cover. I have read a fair amount about prayer in the past couple of years; I had had some sense of God’s wanting to grow my heart and mind in the way of prayer, and so I gave it some of…
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Work & Prayer
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” John 14:12-13 Jesus here brilliantly brings together work…
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“What do you do?”
I recently quit my day-job. When you quit your job, you need to prepare a 30-second story of “what you’re doing now” because that’s what everyone asks you, followed by 3-4 clarifying questions, depending equal amounts on how interesting your 30-second story is and on their attention span. Unfortunately, I forgot to prepare my 30-second…