Between Maps and Meaning

Daily thoughts and learning

Category: Personal thoughts and learning

  • Short – Sweet and Full of Love

    Short post today just to remind myself life is beautiful. We worry about money, relationships, careers, but the sun came up today. It’ll set too, and when it does it’ll…


  • Confusion and Certainty

    For God is not a God of disorder but of peace as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭14‬:‭33‬ I’m so confused in every way. Yet so…


  • Lebanon – A Brief Overview

    Before I start I want to apologize to myself, and my few readers for not posting in sometime. After this month I hope to post 2 stories per month as…


  • Rest in Japan

    The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from…


  • God is Certain

    James 1:5-9If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.  But when you ask, you must…


  • The Year of Peace Challenged

    John 14:27“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let…


  • God Meant it for Good

    Romans 8:18“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us.” Sometimes we just need to give God space to speak.…


  • Wildcat Files: The Pallas Cat

    The Pallas’s cat, sometimes known as the “grumpy cat,” is one of the most interesting small wild cat species. You will often see these cats on social media, and unlike…


  • Faith in my Waiting

    Lamentations 3:22–24 “Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself,…


  • Peace in the Fire

    John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the…


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