Their Success Isn’t My Failure
It doesn’t matter exactly what my day looks like, but it does matter that I am where God has called me.
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It doesn’t matter exactly what my day looks like, but it does matter that I am where God has called me.
If I wanted Him, then I wanted what He had for me. What He had for me was this marriage. This impossible marriage.
I repeated the words of sorrow from Scripture until they became my vocabulary.
We have a tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember.
Our objective is to see what life could look like if we live through The Beatitudes’ lens.
I didn’t know how to cry out to God as transparently as our long-ago faith heroes had done.
Her words took me back to a time of deep-seeded insecurity: a time when all I cared about was how I looked and how others perceived me.
Like everything in our lives, tech both helps and hurts us. So how can we appreciate the help but avoid the hurt?
A house blessing in its simplest form, is a way of blessing our homes and dedicating them to God and His purposes.
But over time I have become convinced that God had a script for me to follow. His script is simply to love Him completely, love my neighbors faithfully, and navigate life in light of these two commands.
I finally took the hint from God that the soul sitting next to me was more important than any work I had planned.
Our commitment to this takes stonewalling off the table and provides a path to healing.
With the perspective of time, I can see how God has expanded my vision, stretched my faith, and said no to some of my longings so as to make room for His.
Sometimes rejection becomes an infection that sickens and weakens a life.
Be patient with yourself, be patient with others, and most importantly, be patient with God.