The Practical Disciple

This past week I was serving as a chaplain at our church camp and also teaching wilderness skills to kids.  Multiple times during the week, I found that my efforts to plan didn’t always work out the way I anticipated.  Instead, something else more fitting to the moment that I never could have planned would fall in place.  I felt like God was trying to point out to me that I needed to trust that when my efforts are faltering, the Lord has something different in mind.  The week was a lesson in trust.   Today I received a pop quiz. Today, through a serious of small mishaps, I missed a flight and found myself stuck at an airport in Memphis, Tennessee.  Rather than getting sucked down in a pit of … Read entire article »