We all want to believe that we can exercise significant control over the quality, direction, and even duration of our lives. But we cannot fully control what limits us (and how) any more than we can control the wind. But, oh, how we wish to be unencumbered by such restrictions! They feel like walls, blocking us from doing good things, even biblical things.
Read MoreSince fracturing my wrist falling backward on ice months ago, I have occasionally felt discouraged by the slow healing process. Recovery has been hampered by so many complications that I have wondered if my wrist will ever function normally again or stop hurting.
Read MoreWhen I remember what the locusts have eaten in my life through death, illness, rebellion, injury, sin, and more – I feel anger, sorrow, and frustration. But I also feel a longing for it all to be made right. Sadly, what humans unleashed in the Garden still slithers through our lives today, looking for something or someone to devour. In this world, locusts will always eat things.
Read MoreA unique series of events brought me to a small stone house in the middle of a desert one hot summer day. The old cottage was tired but intriguing with its sagging, dusty floors, shabby furnishings, and curtains that crumbled when touched. With the air of a good poker player holding cards close to the chest, the structure made me wish the walls could talk.
Read MoreSheep can become cast on their backs in several ways, and so can we. In the spiritual realm, casting is a state of being discouraged in one’s soul.
Read MoreWhen you see adoption or foster stories in movies, the parents seem to have it all together and know just the right things to say. That wasn’t me. But, after a disastrous trip to Disney with our daughter-to-be, I was somehow hopeful.
Read MoreGod tells us to “rejoice always, pray continually and give thanks in all circumstances.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16). But in the early days of the pandemic, I wondered how to rejoice while the whole world was mourning.
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