I see the preachers. A hundred-thousand dollar purchases, parading fancy suits on t.v. Claiming Jesus equals earthly pleasure, material reward, physical prosperity. They say if bad things happen, it is because of lack of faith, it is because sin is hidden and it is likely that you haven’t repented yet. Still, I wonder why we follow […]
When Obedience Sounds Like A Cuss Word
“Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ” ~ A. W. Tozier We hear a lot about faith now days. People often say, “I have faith for _____ “, or “Just keep the faith”. But what is faith? Tozier says, faith is a living, […]
Hold On. You’ve Almost Made it
A few seconds before sitting down and writing this, I get bad news. A call I never dreamed. A person surfacing that I thought we’d never face again. And I reel like many of you have; when you’ve been taken back, discouraged, disheartened by the reality that life isn’t going your way. And who said, skies […]
What A True Hero Looks Like on 911
My husband sits at a military base in Washington. I talk to him on the phone. The military men and women stand, in full attire, guns in hand, bullet proof vests trying to defend our land. And have we forgotten the price of freedom? Have we forgotten many died so you and I could live in […]
The Lady Who Said She Was Going To Punch My Two-Year-Old In The Face.
I sit in the car for what seems all night. And although I think big, and continually long for almost epidemic proportions of insight and idealism… For some reason this night, I wanted to shrink small, run, hide, live inside my car…and never step back into reality. For there can be this thing called, “rejection” that […]
When it’s Time to “Take Your Freedom”.
It’s like a wave of grief swells involuntarily in me as my nine-year-old clings to the book we are reading… Addy, an American Girl, was something I wouldn’t let my brown skinned daughter read on her own. It’s about a young child entrenched in a war for her freedom; beaten, made to eat worms. Her father and […]