I hurt for people who are parents--and whose experience of having and raising a child has been anything but blessed, enriching, hopeful, or joyful. [Click title to read more.]
Category: trials
The Abrupt Beauty Of The Psalms
Sometimes the refrain of lament-to-praise feels like whiplash, like a contradiction. To those unfamiliar with it, it undoubtedly reads that way. And yet it’s the walk of faith: the sometimes-grim or sorrowful recognition of what feelings exist, the acknowledgment of one’s circumstances, paired with the resolution that God is who God is. [Click title to read more.]
There Is An Endpoint To Your Suffering
Your suffering and your hurt won't go on and on without end. The pain has an end date. [Click title to read more.]
The Great Wide Open
When you stand before the great wide open, anything and everything seems possible. It's less scary than I imagined it would be. [Click title to read more.]
Holy Hedges
We can become consumed with hedges, and with being protected. But sometimes that's not what's best for us. [Click title to read more.]
Alongside The Storm
The thing is, when we're in the storms - or alongside them - it's easy to over-value our own judgment and to under-value the judgment of those who know best. [Click title to read more.]
Thank God For The Closed Doors
Our response to closed doors in our lives gives a lot away about what we prioritize. It's time to change the way we think about them. [Click title to read more.]
Short-Sightedness Can Ruin You
What strikes me the most reading the stories of the Bible's vow-breakers is that our arrogance often goes much deeper than we think: we really do believe we know ourselves better than God does. [Click title to read more.]
Be Ready For The Change That Will Alter Your Landscape
God is the constant in the topography of our shifting world. When the landmarks disappear, when what we know has been rendered foreign to us, He will remain the same. [Click title to read more.]
What You Need When You Need It
In the Christian walk, we usually don't have what we need...until exactly when we need it. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 