What Is Your Will In Christ?

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 9: Building To A Reset *** James 3:13 NLT "If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom." *** I should have seen it coming... In the busy, hazy confusion of day to day events, ranging from personal to familial and then on a world wide basis, it's easy for one to get caught up in a cycle of concerns and activities that make certain things seem more remote or possibly even lost in the fog of life. It seems endlessly true that some things are more important than others ... but then none are more important than some. It's not too hard to understand how some of us can easily get d

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 8: Jumpin' Out Of The Frying Pan Into ... I was in the cab of my truck one day driving on my way to work when my frustration finally all just came busting out with exasperated venom while looking up and thumping my fist against the windshield. "I've decided that you really don't love me! I've tried to do everything I'm supposed to do for you and you still don't care! You can't convince me that you love me! I've gone to church and I've prayed and prayed to you and you don't listen! You don't answer! You don't love me!" It was loud, it was accusatory, it was heartfelt ... and it was awful!!! ... Three days later while I was at

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 7: Awkwardly Estranged *** Jeremiah 4:14 (NLT) "O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart that you may be saved. How long will you harbor your evil thoughts?" *** There are things in life that shape and change us all as part of our omniscient God's plan. But my wife and I weren't thinking about that at the time of our Dad's passing. We weren't considering the fact that our limited thoughts and understanding don't limit the creativity or perfection of our sovereign God's thoughts and plans - and much less the fact that our inability to understand what He's doing doesn't make Him wrong. I wrestled with all that I was feeling and thinking at times, but when

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 6: The Grace Of A Moment To Forgive *** Job 14:2 (NLT) "We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear." *** I was in my late twenties some years later when the day of forgiving and being at peace with my dad finally took place. I was deep into the building of my own life and family and for the most part still guarded it somewhat cautiously from my dad where he was concerned. We had a casual and polite relationship, but in the back of my mind and in my heart I certainly hadn't forgotten anything and I hadn't really forgiven him. But one Sunday, approximately midday, I had an unexplainable and overwhelming desire to go visit my

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 5: Love's Angelic Emissary *** "Awesomely awesome God, your greatness reaches beyond the farthest expanses of the heavens and all that is within them declares the vastness of your immeasurable glory. So how is it that such a tiny and unremarkable creature such as I can hold your attention and capture your heart so completely? For indeed I hold them both firmly captive..." jbh *** In the months that I had been running loosely following my angry exodus from home, I had alienated the kind of people that I felt I was desperately in need of. Aside from that, I was also really ashamed to face them. I'd humiliated myself publicly in so many ways that I now avoided them. On

Note:   If you've not had the opportunity to read the foreword or previous chapters and would like to, please look for the title of this writing under the "Blog Pages" tab above and click on it. You'll find what's available to date under that tab. jbh The Passion Well Chapter 4: Drinking From A Poisoned Well This may start out a little slow, but please bear with me. I need to set the table... I personally feel that we're living in a largely desensitized society of spiritually sick people who're left craving increasingly sensational input. The media at large, proudly being the most common source of temporal relief by attempting to scratch that itch, seems to continually work harder at providing its constituents with fresh, "astonishing" and "amazing" fodder to graze on.  But watching the progression toward the continually amazing seems like something similar to a hardcore drug addiction in that after a while the things that