by Peter White | Nov 11, 2024 | Restoration
By Peter White Burnout can have a way of pouncing on you, like one of the old Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. I can still remember my first panic attack. I say “first” because it wasn’t the only one. I’m walking down the hallway back to my office after a meeting. All of a...
by Peter White | Nov 11, 2024 | Restoration
By Peter White In a season of life, I served as the corporate chaplain for the staff of a car dealership. One day as I was making the rounds through one of our shops, my eye was caught by a relatively new car that I saw up on the lift. A brand-new engine was being...
by Peter White | Nov 11, 2024 | Restoration
By Peter White “Sunday is a work day.” I have a distinct memory when I worked on staff at a church of the senior pastor saying this to us in a staff meeting. It was a big, downtown church. A lot of stuff happened on Sunday—multiple worship services of...
by Ken Janke | Nov 11, 2024 | Restoration
by Ken Janke There are two kinds of battles we face in life: internal and external. On the surface, we see the external battles playing out around us—conflicts with others, challenging circumstances, health issues, and more. As James says, there is another battle that...
by Angie Steinke | Nov 11, 2024 | Restoration
by Angie Steinke I remember the first time I read the poem, The Man Watching by Rainer Maria Rilke, it was back in the late 90’s featured in a beautiful book by Ken Gire titled: Windows of the Soul – Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life ....
by Angie Steinke | Sep 25, 2024 | Restoration
by Angie Steinke Journal Entry – July 22nd, 2018 I’m sitting here at the desk in the single occupancy room at a retreat center, entering into a reflection time as we enjoy an evening of silence and solitude. We had been given a diagnostic test of sorts...