Author: Jon Wellman

My kids get to pick the music on the way to school (except for Mondays, when they usually aren’t awake enough to care what’s playing).

I bring my iPod in the car, and they take turns. Lydia picks Tuesdays and Thursdays, and she usually picks A Whole New World from the movie Aladdin (she likes to sing it with me). Tony gets Wednesdays and Fridays, and he usually goes with Lecrae or Israel Houghton.

This morning, however, Tony picked the radio. We have an awesome local Christian station here… 99.1 JOY FM. The first song that came on was Revelation Song by Phillips, Craig, and Dean.

After I dropped the kids off, I got to thinking about the song. The lyrics are taken from, of course, Revelation… (more…)

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Lately, I have been comparing discouragement to keeping water in a colander… too many holes to plug, not enough fingers.

Then I began thinking about that analogy.

Why am I trying to plug up a colander?

When you use a colander, the GOAL is to LET GO of whatever (potentially) hot, messy liquid that is part of the item that stays in the apparatus. The food that stays INSIDE the colander is the good part. The rest goes down the drain.

I need to let go of the hot messes and keep what is good. Eternally good.