where my heart and His Story collide
Just thought I'd make sure I'm clear on a few things before we start this last part... I really do believe obedience is good. It's the goal. Holiness should be our goal and our heart's truest prayer. I also don't want to discount that Christians have everything we need for life and godliness. Neither am… Continue reading Turn and Be Healed, in Authenticity (Part Three)
So, picking up from where we left off in that first post... with how calloused hearts can sometimes tell us there is something more we need to offer God in order to earn, keep, or repay His Love... and how I'm not so sure that work is a requirement for faith... and how you may or may… Continue reading Turn and Be Healed, in the Pilgrimage (Part Two)
I'd like to begin this whole thing with a bit of full disclosure... This post has been a rough one. It's also way long (likely too long according to some standard of which I clearly don’t follow), so it's split into three. But, I've honestly no idea the rules for sharing multiple parts... one per… Continue reading Turn and Be Healed, In Jesus (Part One)
How do we hold onto hope in the messy middle of our story? How do we look at what’s not, and believe it will become what’s best? How do we look at what doesn’t exist and have faith it one day will? How do we hope against hope for the promise of good in the… Continue reading Life in the Messy Middle
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I need a good, old fashioned kick in the hiney. You know, the kind of kick that ruffles all my feathers and leaves me dusting off my pride!?! (Totally off topic, but my family had a wiener dog named, Hiney, before I came along. I’m not sure why,… Continue reading When Loving Is Hard (and you just need the hard truth of true love)
He was in the beginning, yet born as a man. He's on the throne with God, yet died as a lamb. He held the hand of his mother, yet holds the whole world. He loved unto death, yet no sin He performed. He is Risen, yet was raised like the worst of criminals. He is… Continue reading Fixing Our Gaze
A funny thing - well, maybe more interesting than hahaa - happened along the way to getting a free book. See, I’d had in my mind for about a year (a fairly typical amount needed for one of my ideas to percolate) that it was high time I read the classic Pilgram’s Progress, by John… Continue reading Connecting One Free Thing to Another
Redeemed Ruth 