This is my answer to a real girl who has real questions and concerns. You might have them too. “You ask some tough questions. You’re asking me if you should trust God in a big way, big enough to ‘come through for you.’ Or, should you just give up on your hopes and dreams, give up …
Beauty in the Broken
Job and The Deeper Deeps or How to See God
Job is the one character, the one book, most of us wish was not in the bible. We don’t ever want to consider his lot falling to us. Don’t even go there. It’s a hard story with hard truth and some of it is hard to grasp. But, The God Dare is in the Job story too. Job was one of the biblical ‘good guys’ in fact he was,
“..blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” Job 1:1.
A description befitting most of you reading this. You’re good right?
When Everything Falls Apart
When was the last time you went through one of those seasons where everything you relied on, everything you thought was true, fell apart? I’m talking about the big things. The job loss, the miscarriage, the divorce, the serious illness, the tragedies that sucker punch us one way or another and can’t be prayed away. The suffocating thing suddenly dropped in our laps where we can’t see anything good because of the bad….
The Place Between the Going & the Showing
I like to make my own decisions about my life like where I live, how I spend my time, how I make a living, etc. I’m an independent sort and I pretty much want to do what I want to do when I want to do it….. except for this one thing. By submitting my …
On Purpose & Brokenness
Did you ever see the movie Hugo? The one about the boy who lives inside this huge clock in a Parisian train station? It’s based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and it’s a magical tale about an orphan boy trying to uncover a secret left to him by his …