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Small Problems Are For Small People Have you ever noticed that small problems irritate us, much like swatting a pesky fly on a hot summer’s day.  But big problems stop us dead in our tracks and rock our world.  Maybe, just maybe, we are wired to live in the arena of bigger issues. The small stuff of life doesn’t challenge us, but rather irritates us to be bothered by such trivial matters. I wonder if all of life is not an attempt to get us to live out of the deep places rather than to busy ourselves with the superficial and shallow.   Consider Proverbs 25:2 “It is God's privilege to conceal things and the king's privilege to discover them .” Why do we gravitate to discussions about the weather, the latest news event or conversations about another person’s behavior.  We too often revel in the trivial and miss the richness of discovering who we are and God’s design for us.   Our problems introduce us to ourselves.  And the bigger the problem,...

Hope / Expectations Walk with me for a few moments as we probe the tension between hope and expectations.  Perhaps many of the inner conflicts we face in life arise from unmet expectations.  But, we cannot live in a vacuum of hope. After all, hope gives us an anticipation of future things, of better things, of a new tomorrow, and a better day.  Herein is the rub; anticipation sets up our expectations.  And it is at this point risk enters.  What if our expectations are not realistic?   I look to the pages of scripture to shed some light.   First, I think of John the Baptist.  He lived an extreme lifestyle based upon his inner conviction of how he understood God’s purpose for him.  Yet, the path he committed himself led to a dungeon.  John, like so many have done in their own moments of inner darkness, began to question whether his life had been spent in vain. He began to question if he had misunderstood his God; ‘Are you the Me...