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April 18, 2023

Hope Again There has surely been a time where you have desired, waited, and prayed for something  for yourself or someone you love and seen it fail or just not happen over and over and over. In time, perhaps you have all but or completely given up hope of ever seeing this desire fulfilled. Perhaps…

April 18, 2023

Hard things The goal of this life is to do hard things and do them well because of the Holy Spirit. There is no point to being spared from something if we lose our faith I’ve finally, after 38 years come to realize, Why, is a dumb question. We only ask why when we are…

April 18, 2023

Grace heals me deeper. What is grace? Unmerited divine assistance given to humans from God.  A virtue of coming to God. Approval or Favor. Mercy or pardon. Privilege

April 18, 2023

When I was very ill with a mental illness for years, many things that were precious to me died or went dormant. It was years of endless sorrow, and death took many forms. The dreams that vanished seemed so permanent and final, and the dormant things settled beneath the surface of my heart pricking me…

April 18, 2023

God leads through the pain Sometimes the pain we suffer through the imperfect dysfunction of the church leads us right to the very heart of God and to the people of God we needed all along. But if you quit when it’s hard because you feel alone, you’ll never reach where God IS taking you.…

April 18, 2023

Following hard after Jesus in the hard times is, more often than not, just being willing to walk. To just keep putting one foot in front of the other, over and over again, without relief.  The battle isn’t even, for the most part, our circumstance but the emotional battle that rages within. Even now as…

April 18, 2023

God uses the small and insignificant. The broken and forsaken are His tools of choice. Giving the little you have is all God desires. He does not need or want anything, but He desires you as you are. What do you have to give Him? Your doubts? Your fears? What about the great disappointment you…

April 18, 2023

Faith I believe my view of faith is changing. I believe, I have long thought that it was God answering (answering by changing, doing miracles, making provisions, stopping pain, bringing me out of, or even stopping something). That faith was simply the belief of good things (comfort, peace, happiness, joy) ultimately happening. That there is…

April 18, 2023

Faith Plus Trust Doesn’t Equal Understanding. I don’t know about you, but I struggle with not having the understanding I’d like about situations that arise. It’s like I trust God, I put the “thing” in His hands, and I confess truth to myself. But, after a while, I start to feel shaky, kind of like…