4 a.m.

It's gonna be one of those days when I should be getting up but I haven't really gone to bed. Okay, I did fall asleep on the couch and sleep off and on from about 10:30 til about 2. I have got to quit doing that. My sleep patterns are all whacked out. I'm sure that I'm gonna feel like sleeping right around sunrise. Maybe I'll go watch a little tv... that's sure to put me back to sleep.

Because

Because your eyes see me and your ears are tuned to my cries for help,

Because you have pursued and rescued me and

Your hand has reached out to me and held me close,

Because you have loved me and made plans with me in mind,

Open my ears to your voice and when I hear,

Open my heart to your purposes and when I believe,

Open my eyes to injustice and when I see,

Open my mind to possibilities and when I imagine,

Open my hands to let go of my smaller purposes

and embrace the work you have for me to do.

Thank you Lord for a good word of encouragement...

Almighty God..... how wonderful Thou art. To save the world and satisfy men's hearts. I can't pretend to comprehend just how. Almighty God, how wonderful art Thou.

Thank you Lord for sending a good word of encouragement today. Where would I be without you?

I'm not really interested captivating the neighborhood with my pumpkin carving projects. Nor do I want to spend $375 to have someone else write my resume. Nor do I want to join the RNC Women's teleconference already in progress. Thanks anyway.

Open for business

After three years of running away, I have returned with a different approach. What if I already have all I need to produce what I need to produce? What if it's time?

Here in this quiet room in this quiet house on this quiet street in this quiet suburb in this rusty old town I believe something new and fresh and exciting is happening.

Wait for it... wait for it...

I feel like the Chilean miners after hearing the drill that would free them. I must find my sunglasses to protect my eyes from the onslaught of the sun, but I am SO READY.

Let's do this thing!

Where He leads

Walking around Akron U campus today with Christina. Would be a serious deja vu except that so much has changed down there -- lotsa money has been pouring into that campus since it was my old concrete stomping ground.

Court takes off for India tomorrow. I can hardly believe it.

And it looks like Ron got me a new Associate Producer gig.

Funny where leads come from. Also funny how lately, whenever I write, my thoughts turn to God. What's up with that?

Glorious secrets

So much of God's work is done underground, behind the scenes, in the heart. It's about what goes before. It's about what survives after. It's a quiet undercurrent. An overlying spiritual reality that alters all the physical truths that lay underneath. Like a grand transparency, God's work so often goes unnoticed by the world, but it makes glorious what He chooses to reveal to those who belong to Him.