Category: Spiritual Growth
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Keep Looking
I couldn’t see the birds. For a few years now I’ve had a lovely comforter. I picked it out because I thought it was very beautiful. It is a bit busy though because it’s covered with flowers and foliage. After over five years of owning this comforter, I looked down this morning and was surprised…
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Unguarded and Safe
I didn’t mean to say it. Even as the words left my lips, I was surprised by myself. I had an unguarded moment. A moment I couldn’t help but express what I was feeling and thinking. Have you ever done that? It is rare for me because I remain very much in control of myself.…
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Not My Will, But Yours Lord
Not my will but yours Lord. This phrase uttered by Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane holds great wisdom and great meaning for us as believers. There is a lesson to be learned here. Christ said these words regarding a very troubling future he knew was coming. His horrific death, the pain, and the suffering…
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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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It’s Not the End
“Here we are at last, at the end of all things” that is a line from “The Lord of the Rings.” It’s funny but that moment was not the end at all. It was only an end of their hard journey for a moment. There was more to their story still be witten and lived. More…
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Abuse and Trauma
Abuse and trauma. In some ways these words have been normalized, minimized, or dismissed by many. Some perceive them as not real or even noteworthy. Instead, they are considered someone’s opinion of what happened, and not reality. This idea that abuse or trauma is in our minds only and that they are our perception of events, diminishes what occurred,…
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Surrender
Surrendering is not so easy with your hands full or when life is hard. Your hands get all tangled and tied up and you can’t free them in order to lift them or you are terrified to let go because what would happen then.. Instead, you stand hands full, heart heavy, and unable to let go…
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The War in our Minds
I have never been a person who denies my areas of weakness. You see like David I feel like “my sin is always before me.” The things that I’ve done wrong are glaringly obvious to me and have become a voice in my head to remind me that I’m not good enough, that I don’t succeed…
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Disappointed vs Disappointing
How many people really have the fairy tale life? Well, we don’t really expect the fairy tale life, do we? How many people even have the life that they dreamed they would have when they were kids? Most of us realize that we’re not going to get the fairy tale, but we do hope to have…
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Embrace Your Story
In the last 20 years of my life I came to the point where I can’t stand generic romance or love stories that are unrealistic fluffy love stories. I guess I’ve become too cynical after seeing the challenges in relationships, my own and those around me. What appeals to me more are stories about real…
Devotions For Real Life 