In my most recent blog, I shared some things I recently learned about the first three verses of the Beatitudes. These verses speak of those who acknowledge their spiritual bankruptcy, the grief they feel over their personal sin and the sin in the world, and the desired quality of meekness before God and others. ThisContinue reading “A Study in the Beatitudes, Part II”
Category Archives: hope
Christmas During the Year of the Pause
Over the past week, I have been mulling over my next blog post. It’s been some time since I blogged because quite frankly, my life has been on fast forward since early October. But, no more excuses. I made the commitment some time ago to launch this blog, and I now seek to push throughContinue reading “Christmas During the Year of the Pause”
Finding Rest
Someone asked me a few months ago how I was doing in this pandemic. I said I was doing well. I didn’t even qualify it with an “all things considered…” I had been on break from school for a few weeks in the summer, and the weather had been good. I’d started having outdoor socialContinue reading “Finding Rest”
One Brick at a Time
Have you ever hit a wall? I mean figuratively, not literally. I’m not talking about the kind of wall that other people put up either. The kind I mean is the wall we put up inside of ourselves, around those most vulnerable places, to keep others from seeing whatever it is we don’t want themContinue reading “One Brick at a Time”
A Mother’s Heart
Now I lay me down to sleep, the Lord I pray my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. I remember concluding the prayers by asking God to bless my mom, my dad, my brothers, and even the smelly old cat that my brothers hatedContinue reading “A Mother’s Heart”
A Reflection on Christian Women and Marriage
Before I became a Christian, I had a very narrow-minded view of what Christian women looked like. I knew what I thought I had heard in church about what a woman’s role was. It did not fill me with hope. For a very long time, it also kept me away from exploring the faith IContinue reading “A Reflection on Christian Women and Marriage”
Finding Joy
Joy (noun): (def)The emotion expressed by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires; DELIGHT. The expression or exhibition of such emotion; GAIETY. A state of happiness or felicity; BLISS. A source or cause of delight (definitions from www.merriam-webster.com). As I was researching for this blog post, I learned somethingContinue reading “Finding Joy”
Push Through the Awkward
Have you ever shared something on social media you found funny, but that was met with the deafening silence of crickets? Or that upon further reflection, you realized it might not have reflected the love of Christ or the person you want to be? Happens all the time, right? This is not a new phenomenon,Continue reading “Push Through the Awkward”
Moving Forward
Holy Saturday. A day of silence and remembrance. The stillness within the tomb. The horror of the crucifixion behind us as we await Resurrection Sunday. It seems to me that for the Christian, a season of grief is very much like an extended Holy Saturday. It is that liminal space between creating precious, beautiful memoriesContinue reading “Moving Forward”
God’s Miracle Made Personal
I have been thinking a lot about miracles lately. A research paper that asked me to evaluate C.S. Lewis’s writings on the topic enabled me to take a deep dive into the millennia old debate as I wrestled with my own beliefs on the subject. Brought up under both Presbyterian and Methodist teachings, strangely enoughContinue reading “God’s Miracle Made Personal”
in heartbreak and in hope 