If you have been reading here for any length of time, you likely will have read about how my life radically changed, around 2005, when I went from living a Gospel that started at gaining life-teaching, to completely abandonment and surrender. There was this point where the gospel pierced my heart, it slipped from my head […]
This is the most somber post I have written to date, and may ever write. As I sit here in the blazing summer heat, french doors open to my bedroom…I see a sky of soot, smell that aftermath of fire burning. Fingers start typing… Yes, I can still hear the clanging of ladders, harsh spraying of […]
I thought I could fly. Wind breezes by, lifting everything in sight. Clouds brush the sky with sweeping signs that heaven is real, God is undefeated. We serve a Savior who still wins battles, even when we can’t always see it. My girls hold hands, ten years apart. One walking the isle in less than three […]
“Arise, go!” As a child, I was terrified of the wale-eating story of a man who didn’t obey God. Storms, disobedience, thrown into the sea, eaten by a whale, sent to demand repentence from a city of violent, raping thieves? I mean, what five-year-old, wouldn’t think that’s their worst nightmare? As an adult, it became easier […]
“I can’t breath”, I tell my husband, sipping cold water. It does nothing to eleviate my misery. “Huuuu…Huuu….Huu…” Each breathe gets shorter. Air fills less and less my lungs, as I ache for more of the mountains I once knew. In Washington, air was ample, full, bouniful, pure. The mountains and trees purified so much… But in […]
Didn’t Peter do more than deny Jesus out of fear? So, why did he let that one event define him? Why do we let one hard day or season in our lives, define us? How did Peter forget about walking on water, the bread and loafs miracle, the healings and the resurrection? Why was all He […]