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Becoming One: Learning to Hear the Spirit There are moments in our walk with God when His voice becomes clearer—not through volume, but through gentleness. Like Samuel awakening in the quiet hours of the night, we sometimes discover that the Lord has been calling us in ways we didn’t fully recognize at first. This reflection comes from one of those quiet awakenings, where the Spirit’s presence becomes unmistakable. Scripture 1 Samuel 3:2–11 — The Lord calls Samuel in the stillness of the night, awakening him to a new purpose and a deeper awareness of His voice. Samuel’s story reminds us that God often speaks in ways we only understand in hindsight. His call may come through early‑morning stirrings, unexpected clarity, or a gentle nudge toward reflection. Like Samuel, we learn to say, “Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening,” as we recognize that the Spirit has been guiding us all along. Reflection I was rereading several of my recent posts and contempla...

The Good Shepherd and the Breath of the Word In my last post, I wrote about how “The Word of God” can lose its breath when our language flattens the living voice of the Father. When Scripture is squeezed into the limits of English, deep spiritual realities can become rigid, literal, and lifeless. Words like death , judgment , wrath , and even separation can lose the warmth, movement, and relational heartbeat they carried in the Hebrew mind. This week, as I sat with several passages from the book of John, I realized how deeply this same issue affects our understanding of Satan, sin, and the work of Yeshua. John uses three different tenses to describe “the ruler of this world” — will be cast out , is coming , and has been judged . English makes these sound like disconnected statements, but when the breath returns, they reveal a single unfolding story of God’s victory. And just like the Word can lose its breath, our understanding of separation from the Father c...

The Slow Awakening — God’s Timing in the Hearts of Jews, Muslims, and the World A Unity Series reflection on identity, resistance, and God’s gentle work of awakening across the world. The sense that something is shifting There are moments when I look at the world and feel something shifting. Something subtle, something quiet, something slow — but unmistakably God‑driven. I see it in conversations with rabbis. I see it in Muslims who begin to question what they’ve always been told. I see it in Christians who are shedding old denominational walls. I see it in people everywhere who are starting to look toward Yeshua with new eyes. And I keep thinking: This is God’s work. This is His timing. This is His awakening. But I also feel the tension inside myself — the desire for it to happen faster. The longing for hearts to open now. The impatience of watching God move one grain of sand at a time. ...

As I continue searching for clearer ways to understand Father God, I’ve begun to realize how deeply language shapes the way we see Him. Recently, while reading Braiding Sweetgrass , I was struck by the author’s description of her native tongue—an animate language where the world is alive, relational, and filled with presence. It made me wonder how much our English, with its habit of turning everything into objects, has limited our ability to see God’s heart, His creation, and even one another. This reflection is my first step into exploring what happens when language itself becomes a doorway to knowing the Father more truthfully. Scripture and a Living World As I reflected on this difference between languages, I began thinking about how Scripture itself describes creation. Long before English existed, the Hebrew writers spoke of the world as something alive, responsive, and filled with God’s presence. The Psalms tell us that the heavens “declare” and the skies “proclaim...

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There are moments when the Spirit teaches through the quiet rhythm of giving and receiving. Indigenous wisdom reminds us that the earth is not a possession but a living gift — one that calls us to gratitude and reciprocity. As I reflect on Jesus’ parable of the vineyard, I see how God’s Kingdom mirrors this same truth: everything entrusted to us is meant to be honored, shared, and returned in love. Land, Reciprocity, and the Kingdom of God When I read about Indigenous ways of seeing the earth — as a giver, a relative, a source of life that deserves gratitude — something in me slows down. It’s a worldview built on reciprocity : the earth gives, and we give back. A young Mescalero Apache man once told me how he pours out a little wine before drinking, offering it back to the earth. In Braiding Sweetgrass , the author describes her father pouring out a bit of coffee before serving it. These gestures are small, but they carry a deep truth: gifts must be ...