Our small daily choices are the way we learn to stand against the wind. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: trials
Broken Crowns
We fashion crowns for ourselves; we wear them; we pretend authority we don't own. [Click title to read more.]
Faith In The Present Tense: A Perpetual Struggle
Maintaining faith in a time of trial is exhausting. [Click title to read more.]
Embracing Exile
Embracing exile can be a path to peace. [Click title to read more.]
Navalny, Suffering, and Turning To What I Can Tend
To become less, to serve and suffer, is in many places now the opposite of what I am told my faith should produce. I am told my faith can make me strong and grand, a loud voice, powerful, an authority. I am told that I can remake the world the way God wants it to be, surely? This sounds like a refrain of ancient darkness.
If You Do Not Save Us, We Will Still Worship You
I'm not the kind of person who easily chooses God over my desire for God to help me. But I want to be. [Click title to read more.]
Lent and the Practice of Suffering
We must be careful when we speak of blessings through suffering. But God meets us in pain in ways He meets us nowhere else. [Click title to read more.]
Wait And See What I Will Do
In the Valley of Dry Bones, waiting is the best choice. [Click title to read more.]
The One Who Lifts My Head
Sometimes the right verse changes us in our brokenness. [Click title to read more.]
Overcoming Hatred
I never hated anyone before I hated her. But now, God is teaching me to bend. Slowly. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 