Inscribed By God
HONOR VS. PEOPLE PLEASING In my book, I made a proclamation. It was true at the time, but looking back, I realize it was something I never should have owned for myself. People-pleasing. In Gentleness: It’s Not What You Think I called myself a pathological people-pleaser. Now, years later, look back on those words […]
HONOR: A VERY WEIGHTY WORD Honor. Sometimes just saying the word makes my mouth feel heavy. But it’s not because the letters H-O-N-O-R weigh any more than S-I-L-L-Y. I mean, that would be just…silly! (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.) It’s not the ink in the black letters printed on a piece of paper or the […]
But, God, This Isn’t a Garden! Victory Wilderness and victory? Maybe these two words don’t naturally connect in our minds, but then again neither do wilderness and garden. The last several months, I’ve welcomed you into my mind wanderings on the wilderness and the invaluable lessons that become woven into our souls there. Dependency, […]
But, God, This Isn’t a Garden! Identity How many times have we asked ourselves Who am I? And how many times have we been asked What do you do for a living? Or conversely, What are you studying or planning to be? From the introspective wanderings of our souls, searching for answers to some of […]
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 […]