I see them dig today. Ebony skin glistening in the beaming sun. Shovels, unearthing everything deep and red. A little boy walks nearby, the look in their eyes is determined, fierce, purposed, unified…. And we all dig, sometimes. Some dig to build, others to plant. And then there are those that dig graves with words left […]
“I….I…” Trying to wrack my mind for words to explain our past season to my husband… “I feel like we’ve been through a blender.” Yes. That was it. Mentally, physically, emotionally, in relationships. Like a wirlwind had wrapped itself around our home and was spinning us towards sharp blades, destined to destroy us. Worse yet, we’ve […]
For three days, God was speaking, “You care too much about what people think.” When I told my twenty-two year old, she responded, “What? I don’t think you do.” But truth deep inside, rarely lies. And this theme had been striking me recently, through text messages, words I’d been reading. And then, there was that time, […]
Billboards, Youtube, Snapchat, Instagram. The world is a speedy mechanism of quick snapshots, promising us what “real” love looks like… And we must long for it… Because these images hook us. We must desire something deeply… Because we have created an entire generation so glued to their phones, they get lost in not seeing the people […]
Over thirty year. That’s how long I spent emmersed in gospel’s teaching me to “get”. One was the gospel of the world. A “gospel” I lived well during my teenage years. The other was what I interpreted from the church. “Get” prettier clothes. “Get” more of Jesus. Strive to “Get” our inheritance or blessing. On and […]
We are not magnets. Yet, how often do we live like that? Drawing, collecting, letting anything & everything around us stick to us? Worse yet, is when “religion” (No, not sincere Jesus following, but man-dictated religion) is used to justify man’s acceptance of worldliness, excessiveness, accumulation, or materialism… Even boasting in arrogance, calling it, “blessed”? Doesn’t […]