“I will follow you, Lord: but….” Luke 9:61 There’s always something. Something that seems more important or urgent, something that needs to be taken care of first or gets in the way of my listening or my following. We emphasis and give awards for leadership skills and teach them. Following skills? Not so much. Earlier in Luke 9:35 at the Transfiguration of Jesus the voice from the heavens instructs those with Jesus to listen. Listen. “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him

The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him -Moses’ Song in Exodus 15:2 “Not of my own doing.” It popped into my head like a lightbulb had brightened a dark room. Strength is a gift. Not the muscle strength that I work on as I hold a plank pose in yoga, although that was the context in which this insight appeared. The strength of heart to keep at it each day is a

Each morning and each afternoon we gather in a circle. Day Camp 2019. Counselors, Youth Guides, Crew leaders, and Caring Adults join hands and we pray. Thumbs to the left; you are holding up the hand of the person to your left and the person on the right is holding up your hand. We. We get to support, encourage, teach, play games with, sing, and pray with preschool through elementary age children for a full four and a half days. So, we pray. We share a devotion in the morni

God’s deeds of power. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. John 14:16-17 Jesus asked for his followers to be given another Advocate. Jesus’ request was answered. While staying with them, Jesus ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the pr