Category: Spiritual Growth
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Simple joys
I want you to stop and think of simple moments of pure joy that you’ve experienced. They come often and in many forms in our lives. Most of our joys come to us in this unexpected way. They’re simple, unassuming, and unplanned moments. Have you thought of a few? I have. For example, seeing 2…
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Restoration…It’s a Process (Part 1)
I had mapped out what I would write tonight when I sat down with tears in my eyes, I had a plan. Yet as I started to write, everything I could think of just didn’t quite gel. So, I paused as one thought swirled around in my head over and over. I’m not alright. You see…
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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…
