A message from a friend: I am hurting today. A phone call: I am tired... I don't know how much longer I can do this. A social media post that silently screams, Someone, anyone, please love me. It's all around, and truth be told, we are all hurting in some way. Peace, my friend. He… Continue reading You’re gonna be ok
When I Say I Love You
When you have wronged me, and you have deeply hurt me, or someone I love, and I still hug you, and I tell you I love you, it does not mean my heart is no longer hurting, nor does it mean I condone your actions past or present. It simply means that there isn’t anything… Continue reading When I Say I Love You
The Church of the Extremities, and other silly names
I am asking for grace as I write on this subject. Grace and understanding from those who shepherd His sheep. Pretty please – don’t crucify me by correcting my faulty theology, or hate me if you feel like I have mentioned you. I am going to be honest, but I will do my best to… Continue reading The Church of the Extremities, and other silly names
Please, stop scaring my kids
I wish the end-time dooms-day preachers would stop. It is 12:25 a.m., and I have just had to go in for the second time since I went to bed at 11:30, and assure my thirteen year-old terrified child that God is not going to obliterate the United States of America anytime soon as far as… Continue reading Please, stop scaring my kids
On Pain and Vulnerability
It is when you are tired and vulnerable that you are most easily tempted. It is when you are exhausted and weak that you are easy prey. It is when your heart is broken, and there is a great, gaping wound, that you are open to whatever or whoever steps in to fill in the… Continue reading On Pain and Vulnerability
On Self-pity
A poem I came across this morning. One day when walking down the street, On business bent, while thinking hard About the “hundred cares” which seemed Like thunder clouds about to break In torrents, Self-pity said to me: “You poor, poor thing, you have too much To do. Your life is far too hard. This… Continue reading On Self-pity
If We’re Honest
The faithful among us… the strong, the stout-hearted – how I admire and envy their stolidity, their strength, their unwavering belief in the face of the worst situations, the most devastating diagnoses, the most painful abandonments. You know somebody like this, I’m sure – someone who, no matter what happens, their immediate response is, “Yes,… Continue reading If We’re Honest
Find Me
It's been two years since I wrote this. And oh, how I needed to see it this morning. My heart, my spirit... they are still walking with a limp. But they are walking, slowly, timidly, back to where they belong. Oh Lord, take the eyes of our hearts and our understanding - our knowing -… Continue reading Find Me
First Love: Our Self-Centered, Modern Worship (?)
You don’t have to go far on the internet these days to find an article questioning or criticizing modern worship. One of the frequent criticisms is that this generation’s worship is far too focused on us, on our need for God, and what God has done or can do for us, instead of Who and… Continue reading First Love: Our Self-Centered, Modern Worship (?)
Hide and Seek – When Everything You’ve Based Your Life on Falls Apart
To my fellow truth-seekers, I would say this: Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it. Often, the truth is more painful than what your perceived reality has always been. But no matter how painful, the truth is what sets you free and allows you to pick yourself up, dust off the… Continue reading Hide and Seek – When Everything You’ve Based Your Life on Falls Apart
Journey to Beautiful 