Ever wake one day and something you treasured deeply was gone…just gone? My ninety-year-old great-aunt bought property in Florida, decades ago. She lived where it was open, remote, free. But before long, she heard reports of a “bad community of people” living deep behind the woods that lined her property. At night their thumping music echoed […]
Oh God, we come to you today as needy! We come in weakness, confessing we have no strength. We are like pilgrimagers, sojourners, plowing away through this toil in hopes to find you. And why is it easier to look for you in places and other people…than to close our eyes, be still, and absorb your […]
I heard it crash. One of those mother-moments when you know you could either “get loud”, or “get lower”. I chose “lower still”, tip toeing into the entry hall, finding one of my photos of my nieces and both my daughters shattered on the floor. I pick up the frame, not saying a word. Hearing my […]
Have you ever been somewhere and flashed back in time? Seeing little glimpses of film-like pictures in your mind of what used to be? I curl in a hammock on our property, new foster baby in arms cuddling close. My seven-year old hammock-surfing, a new game we invented for a little fun while passing time. The […]
It all starts in the Secret Place. I worship. Come to Him with weeping. My heavy yoke burdening me. It’s time its His. Again. I enter the tent of Asian. The Holy Place where His glory lives…a place where mere words are far from sufficient. It falls away like scales. These weights, all burdens slowing my […]
“Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.” ~ Watchman Nee Let’s face it; sometimes people are hard to love, and boulders of offensecan “snowball” inside us, until hurt from others hinders […]