Wayfarer

Greetings from quarantine. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 95. Text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

Along my life journey, I've observed that corruption exists everywhere. It exists in governments, business, education, healthcare, and religion. Wherever you find a human system you will find individuals who will rig that system for personal power and gain. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 94. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

Following Jesus is a faith journey because it requires me to find assurance in hope that isn’t readily apparent in my present circumstances. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 93. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

Along my spiritual journey, I’ve learned to shun religious rule-keeping and seek those things that promote Life and Spirit. What I’ve learned is that there is a crucial difference between religious rule-keeping and spiritual discipline. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 92. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

This Wayfarer Weekend Podcast: Trivial Pursuit, Naked Tenders, Synergy, Magnanimity, Thomas Aquinas, Kenosis, Quarantine, English Premier League, and Ted Lasso as we discuss "One Word."

One of the observations I've made this year as I've watched and listened is how individuals respond and react to fear. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 91. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

I observed how my mentor managed his time in this really cool binder to which he constantly referred. I asked him to teach me about time management. I was surprised by the first lesson. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 90. Text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

Today's psalm reminds me of the very human reaction I tend to have whenever life doesn't turn out the way I planned. A chapter-a-day post from Psalm 89. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

If you're an angst-filled teenager or a melancholy Enneagram Type Four, then you'll love wallowing in the gloom as the psalmist pens: "The Darkness is my closest friend." A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 88. The text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

This week on the Wayfarer Weekend (WW) podcast: The second-half of "Conversations with Life" with Matthew Burch. Sage, friend, therapist, and "one who leads people to the source," we will unpack how conversations with life keep us growing and moving to better places. 

The editors were metaphorically calling me as a reader to "center down" and come to God's presence in the midst of my distress. What I will find there, the song's final line tells me is God's "fountain" or "spring." A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 87. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

There are days when I have to be reminded, once again, to consider joy: Surrendering the circumstances of that day in order to reach further up and further in to take hold of it. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 86. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

In the quiet this morning, I find my heart ruminating once again on this difficult year. Like the writer of Psalm 85, I find myself having to consciously stop and listen "to what God the Lord, says." A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 85. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

"One day in your courts" is not about me going to church on Sunday. For followers of Jesus, it is a spiritual pilgrimage of the heart to seek commune with God's Spirit within my heart, soul, and mind in each day, each hour, each moment. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 84. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

On this Wayfarer Weekend podcast, we welcome Matthew Burch. As a therapist, consultant, and advisor, Matthew believes that everyone is having a conversation with life. We're going to unpack that thought over the next two Wayfarer Weekend podcasts.

The fact that I can't comprehend Asaph's realities leads me to extend him some grace as I try to wrap my head around the context of asking God to destroy my enemy. Which leaves me asking, "What am I supposed to take away from Psalm 83?" A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 83. The text version can be found and share at tomvanderwell.com .

The words of Asaph's song leave me sitting in the quiet this morning thinking about my conversations with family and friends earlier this year. I'm pondering some of the things that I have consciously done as a result, as well as those things that I have left undone. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 82. The text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

One of the mysteries of the Great Story is that individuals in the story hear God's voice. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 81. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

As another Christmas approaches, I'm connecting with the least discussed event of that first Christmas. If I miss that connection, then I'm missing the Life, not only of the Christmas story, but the entire Great Story itself. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 80. Text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

Today's psalm is another example of God honoring the need that we have as human beings of expressing our hearts and emotions in the moment, as we have them, no matter where we find ourselves in our spiritual development. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 79. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

How much do I miss out on because I make assumptions about others? Am I going to hold the people at my class reunion to the people they were 30 years ago? How do I walk with my adult children as they forge their path, even though it's not the path I would have chosen for them? These questions and more in the second half of my conversation about Spiritual Transformation with Laine Korver.

In the quiet this morning, I find myself contemplating my love of history on both a large scale as well as the more intimate history of both my paternal and maternal families. Through the warts-and-all history of both family and humanity, Wisdom has taught me so much. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 78. Text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

I don't need to pray for God's presence. I need to pray that God will heal my spiritual blindness. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 77. Text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

Sometimes the miracle is part of the Great Story (Peter escaping the Jerusalem prison), and sometimes the suffering is part of the Great Story (Peter being executed in Rome). Basically, it's like Wendy in a parking lot. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 76. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .

I have a feeling that most of the collective conversation this year will be a giant good-riddance to 2020 and desperate, hopeful pleas for better times ahead. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 75. Text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com .