A Passionate Heart For The Ways Of Jesus
Oh how easy it is to forget. Simple, really, to believe the twenty-four hours which make up my day (waking-sleeping) belong to me. The truth is it’s in HIS purpose, HIS plan, HIS hand, HIS time. –A confidant revealed in a time of muted desperation. –A friend who remembers and meets for lunch (another for [...]
There are some days when I feel blindsided by my past mistakes. It can be triggered by the most random things – like making breakfast. Suddenly, a memory of a time I lost my temper with one of my children. All of my “Joan Crawford” moments queue up for my personal introspection. In those moments, [...]
Yesterday, I wrote a post which expressed my concern for the church. I reminded we are to expect the world to hate us because it hated Jesus Christ first. I expressed concern for the deception seeping under the church’s gates and the need for us as Christians to be peace-makers despite the current rhetoric espoused by critics [...]
I want to take a moment to be very real with those of you, my friends, who are wives (or husbands). Marriage is tough. There is this ideal we have been given to expect when it comes to a marriage. Movies and books portraying “epic romances” or relationships where there is never strife or conflict. [...]
There are two people who I would consider to be my heroes. Men of faith, who’s lives were dedicated to freedom and truth. Two men at unique times in history, who saw the injustices taking place in their society. Individuals who refused to remain silent. Men who truly understood what it meant to love God [...]
Do you ever wonder what it means to live a godly life in today's instant gratification world? I do. I think about it a lot actually, because I realize how, over the past forty some odd years of my life, I often have not. How many times have I been impatient at the grocery store, [...]