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If you’re like me, you’ve struggled in the past to live the Christian life in a way that satisfies your deepest longings. You do the best you can, but you’re still left wanting more meaning and a greater connection with God. A while back I learned that the reason I had not found God actively present in my life as much as I would have liked, was because I was still trying to be in control. Was there any other way to live? Yes, there is another way. A way that makes sense of Jesus’s teachings and connects what he said and how he lived to real life…to my
life.

In my early years as a Christian I declared, “Jesus is Lord” and that he “sits on the throne of my heart.” I sincerely meant these expressions of faith as much as my understanding allowed, and yet I thought that if Jesus was going to help me live day-by-day, he would do it with me at the helm, in control of the vessel. But running my own life created a great deal of strife and unhappiness for myself and others. I made a terrible captain. My life navigation skills were not equal to the task, and eventually I was the cause of my own running aground.

Once I was caught up in a jag of rebellion. When the hour of reckoning came, instead of wrath, I experienced the palpable tender warmth of God’s love wrapping every fiber of my being like an electric blanket. In one fell swoop, I discovered what it means to be the child of a loving heavenly Father who wants nothing more than to have genuine communion with his children.

There are nuances to this, but the fact is, God is real, and so is the relationship.

That day I committed myself to a way of life that I coined Walking Upright on My Knees©. From then on, I found to be true what Madame Jeanne Guyon wrote in the late seventeenth century: “But if you will take the trouble to seek God in your own heart, and if you sincerely forsake your sins so that you may draw near to Him, you shall infallibly find Him.”

Our efforts are never perfect, but God knows our hearts and wants to help us each step along the
way.

I’m eager to share life’s journey with you! Together, let’s learn to walk upright before God, on the knees of humble faith.