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Are you addicted to passion? Passion is like sex. A great thing to have, but so destructive when you are expecting something from it that it was never designed to deliver. Many people follow hot sex to love and are left sorely disappointed. Because great sex can’t lead you to love. Believing that great sex […]

In the last month, I have found myself praying bold prayers. Specific prayers. Prayers where you know whether they get answered or not. Praying bold prayers like that is hard. It is easy to quickly blurt out a specific prayer when you are alone and you are not sure you really mean it. But then, […]

I was so delighted in Cuba. Delighted by what God did through me and our team for them. And delighted by how the Cuban church blessed me. My prayer going to Cuba was that just as we would bless the Cuban Church, so I would receive blessing from them. That was not a selfish prayer. […]

I have to admit that I was surprised in Cuba. Not everything was as expected. I expected a greater sense of desperation. Instead, in spite of Cuba’s challenges, there was a sense of growing well being. That is not to minimize the challenges Cuba faces. Or for that matter, the uncertainty. Our bus tour guide […]

Cuba is a land of great challenge. Yet even though it faces these challenges, there is an atmosphere of great hope in Cuba. There is a sense of imminent positive change in the air. And yet, who knows how much of that change will materialise. The USA is trying to mend their relationship with Cuba, […]

Today is the day we are wrapping up our Cuban adventure. Time to check out of our resort and board a plane back home to Canada. Soon I can tell you what we actually did in Cuba while we were there. I have hung around enough missions teams and have enough world experience to know […]

Well hello there! We should now have been loving on Cuba for four days. It is hard to pre-write posts like this. I can’t predict our adventures or misadventures in Cuba. Often as people we struggle with the hero complex. We desire to help people because they need our help. We help them because we […]

The journey to your best life may well weave. Learning is part of the process. We can’t go far in life, advance very highly, without failure. And failure always puts a crook in our path. After Monday’s post on embracing God’s design for my life, a reader asked me: “what if there are multiple pathways […]

You would think it would be easy to embrace God’s design for my life. After all, if it is what He designed us for, it should come naturally. Maybe it does for you, but for me it is a battle. I always had an incredibly clear sense of vision as a boy. A sense of […]

I have dreams! Big dreams. But here is the thing; big dreams come with big doubts. And sometimes the doubts become so big, I am afraid my dreams will die. Dreaming big is easy. Super easy if you have no plans of actually doing anything with them. Three kinds of dreaming But dreaming dreams that […]