Inscribed By God
BUT, GOD, THIS ISN’T A GARDEN! INTIMACY Intimacy. It’s something we crave—no, we need—as human beings. We crave it because we need it. That’s perhaps a better way of putting it. God created the first human, we call that person Adam, and then decided it wasn’t good for that person to be alone. Cue Eve […]
Dependent. Some of us may shudder when we read that word. As someone born in the United States, independence is something we literally celebrate every year and is something that seems to leak into so many parts of our society in big ways and small ways. Indulge me in a small, personal example. He was […]
BUT, GOD, THIS ISN’T A GARDEN! Wilderness. As a person raised in a home of faith, this is a loaded term. Being a child in the 1980’s in the United States adds a little bit more load to the term. My mind fills with cartoon scenes that always end badly for that poor coyote and […]
When Reality Barges in Anyway It’s just not going to happen. The dreaded thought finally formed in my mind. I had been trying to shut it out and silence it for a couple of weeks, but reality has a way of barging in anyway. It was Christmastime. The time I look forward to seeing family […]
You wake up in the morning and feel meh. You look in the mirror and the reflection matches your feelings exactly. BLAH! Now let’s say you walk out the door and meet someone whose face lights up when they see you, their eyes sparkle, and they say something along the lines of, “It’s SO GOOD […]
In the last post, I invited you into my meandering thoughts on retributive justice vs. restorative justice and how I need to trust that God’s got this. Even when I don’t understand, even when I’m hurt, even when I’m angry. He’s got this. Every single time, He’s got this. Recently, God challenged me and my […]
Just wait, they’ll be sorry. I’m sure that’s NEVER crossed your mind…or mine. Right? (In case you’re in doubt, yes, that’s drenched in sarcasm.) Of course that thought, or something similar, has at least fluttered in your brain waves or pulsed through your emotions at some point in time. We’re all only human. Justice is […]
Judgment? Discernment?? Judgment. Discernment. So close yet so so different—even the dictionary includes discerning in its first definition of judgment! Judgment: The process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing (Merriam-Webster). If the two are so comparable that even the dictionary uses one to define the other, what’s the point of parsing the finer […]
I Didn’t Know, but God Did Corrie ten Boom. I opened my eyes. It was morning, and my waking thoughts were of one of my personal heroes in the faith—Corrie ten Boom. As my mind scrolled through her powerful testimony of faith and resilience in the face of unimaginable circumstances that no one should ever […]
DON’T CONFRONT, CAREFRONT! Don’t Confront, CAREfront Carefront. Never heard of it? Neither had I, until I listened to Larry Kreider’s leadership podcast where he and his wife, LaVerne, talked about passing the leadership test of conflict. (You can listen to the episode yourself here.) Carefront is a term LaVerne used, and I believe coined, […]