Streams in the Wilderness

I marvel at how the Holy Spirit of God transformed Domingo and Irene, that once hate-filled couple. They went from wounding one another to loving one another powerfully. Irene went from hating Domingo to calling him “the godliest man she knows.”[1] This did not, and does not, happen over night. It is a slow process of undoing the human psyche and using the broken pieces to build a suitable temple for the Holy Spirit.

It is my prayer that some day the Spirit of God will arrest each of our hearts in such a way that, in all things, we exemplified Christ. This means that even the small things we assume are a fixed part of our personalities, the faults we assume we cannot change—will be transformed. Our existence […]

Most of us live life with some measure of fear; fear as grand as the fear of God or fear as petty as the opinions of others. Nothing breeds fear like failure and disappointment. Nothing breeds fear like unanswered prayers or unfulfilled desires. If you have asked for anything, then somewhere along the way you […]