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April 18, 2023

We begged and we pleaded…  but God still said no. We don’t get to keep you  though we wanted you so. Our hearts ache so badly  with pain we can’t bear…  O small one, we miss you…  It doesn’t seem fair. We wanted to keep you, we wanted you here To raise you, to love…

April 18, 2023

Trust and manipulation Trust causes such deep pain in me.  I, for so long have wanted to break out of the prison of fear. To extend wide my arms in the carefree assumption that people have my best at heart, and are generally good. To trust in those who were given authority over me, the…

April 18, 2023

Treasures in the Darkness. We have all prayed for a miracle at one point or another in our lives. Maybe it was for the life of a loved one. Perhaps it was a prayer to get a much-desired home or job or whatever. Maybe it’s a troubled marriage or child. We pray for a miracle…

April 18, 2023

Sometimes life is so hard. The physical circumstances of suffering we face have a way of leading our minds to a suffering all their own. Everything seems to go hand in hand to create the perfect storm within our life and mind. We ache to feel better, to taste relief, we cling and desperately claw…

April 18, 2023

The favor of God Mary had favor with God. But that favor meant she would be ostracized by her family and community for the virgin birth. It also involved being the mother of Jesus and watching Him ultimately be hated, put on trial, and crucified. Moses mother had the favor of God. That favor caused…

April 18, 2023

The Faithfulness of God The faithfulness of God is more proved in the tiny and mundane acts of faithfulness than the earth-shattering miracles.  

April 18, 2023

Notes on the Exodus and the journey of the children of Israel towards the Promised land The protection of Moses life from the beginning was an obvious work of God and his subsequent refusal to conform to the ways and beliefs of Eygpt as he grew up in the palace environment is also another glaring…

April 18, 2023

I spent the first seven years of healing desperately and doggedly trying to prove myself to all my family and peers. That ended up being a sad joke. We look at change and the journey in a simplistic way as if it really was as easy as walking up a flight of stairs. Sure, you’d…

April 18, 2023

My hope goes from thing to thing. The reason it needs the next thing is because it’s not on/in the Lord completely. My hope is in the next thing I feel I need or want. I can’t separate my hope for the next thing from my hope in You. Waiting is hard because I’m not…