It stares at me. It’s been months. And I still can’t speak. The open room. The silent space. The little emblems laying around that ask my mind to bend to His understanding… Not mine. And they say… We “signed up for this”, suffering. Giving, holds risks. Bending to love, only cracks you in places that won’t […]
She was four the first time her brown fingers wrapped around the sign stating, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. ~ God” A dark-skinned couple drove slowly out of the abortion clinic. Nice looking couple. Beautiful car. Brown paper bag in hand holding the pill that would finalize the termination of their […]
We love to talk about the dove descending. Jesus’ baptism, the parting heavens….as well as what He did in ministry. But could it be, the chunk of scripture cut out of our theology is… “Jesus was led (guided) by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted (tested and tried) by the devil.” I mean, […]
I don’t know about you, but I can get caught believing …Grace paves our way to heaven, so we don’t have to do anything. Recently, God’s been showing me just how much false teaching has been slipping into my thinking. In studying scripture, something I had never considered before was revealed to me…Jesus frequently asked people […]
I can barely scan Facebook. The wars of him and her, party lines, people and histories, temperaments and issues…filling so many minds with confusion. And yet, did Jesus live in a similar day? “Render to Caesar what is Caesars”, (Matt 20:21) he answered those petitioning whether to pay taxes to those competing with modern day ideology. Still […]
It all started, here. This miraculous story. My third trip to Chi*a. A country my husband said he would never be entering. A vision. A light. A calling to enter. Every day, we each have choices. Go where He leads us or let fears and hesitations, doubts and intellectualism drown out the calling He’s placed within […]