Category: Just As I Am
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Lifting Up Weary Arms: A Journey of Faith
I haven’t been writing lately. When I try to tap into that part of myself that’s inspired, I find very little. Why? Absolute weariness. Weariness can lead to many symptoms, and a lack of creativity is just one of them. It also has a tendency to take me down that dark road where I wonder…
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Finding in God What we Need: Overcoming Life’s Challenges
Today at the end of the day I felt myself in desperate need of some time with the Lord. So many thoughts and feelings, anxieties, and the heaviness of life had been bombarding me. I guess I get mad at myself sometimes or disappointed in myself because I am affected by the heaviness of life.…
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Emptied
I feel so empty. I have heard that so many times, and many times I have felt that. But being empty is not such a bad thing. I’d rather be empty than full of despair, anger, sadness, selfishness, or even contemptuous pride. Better empty than full of ills. All those listed above are soul sicknesses…
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Just as I am
I have sang that song for years, after all it is a great hymn. Yet, I never fully appreciated the heart or the message behind the song in my early years. Why would I need to come just as I am? Honestly, I didn’t think that I was that bad. Sure, I read, and I…
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The Old Pictures
I was looking through old pictures. That was probably my mistake. Sometimes it makes me melancholy when I look back. Mostly because I feel like I’m not the person that I once was. Sometimes I wonder what that girl would have thought about the woman that I’ve become. I know I’m not the only one…
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You Are Worth it!
I’ve not been a person who indulges in emotion or lets it overwhelm the majority of my life. I like to keep it in check and stay in control. After all, I was taught to suppress, suppress suppress, right? Recently I found myself standing in an audience pretty much with free-flowing tears running down my…
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Beautifully Broken
I have this mower that functions correctly, it will mow, but the handle, well it’s broken really. You can move the handle up and down in a way that it’s not supposed to move. I started thinking about this. How something can be broken but still function or at least serve the function that it…
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Apathy
I was prepared for sorrow. After all, I had lost something I hoped for. My life was, well, it was a different life than what I had ever imagined I’d experience. Honestly, life was disappointing and painful and all too real. Not bad, just not good or as great as I wanted it to be. I did not think I…
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Regrets
I used to think I could make it all the way through life without regrets. I was kidding myself. Everyone has regrets of some kind. Even if they are only little regrets, they still exist. We look back and wish we would have done something different, that we would have done something at all, or that we hadn’t done…
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Even At Our Worst…
This morning the thought that keeps running through my mind are thoughts about God’s love for me. Powerful revelations of God’s love are pouring over my mind like a healing oil that soothes, mends, and brings peace to my soul. I want to share this healing oil with you. In Psalms 139 it says “Lord,…
Devotions For Real Life 