When have we ever been told by God that we should pray for Him to bring suffering in our lives? When did we stop asking for joy? Is there a “Christian” cynicism that causes us to believe that He is…
Roles or Relationship?
When I was younger and thinking about faith, my question used to be “what CAN God do?” Now that question has changed. Now I ask “what WILL God do?” The change in the relationship surprised me when this hit me…
Going Under
Today I don’t know what I have to offer anyone. It seems like everything I say or do is a copy of someone or something else, and I know this is how I learn, but I also know that the…
What He Wants; What People Want; What I Want
I woke this morning and thought about spending time with God, thought about all the people who told me that every day was not enough, that a whole life was not enough – as if they were trying to pay…
Dear God: What in the World?
So when You step in, it becomes apparent that it was You. Because nobody else could have thought of a judge in his seventies with a short fuse and 30 years of experience who would turn down a motion and…
Dear God – I Am a Wife Who Worries About Her Husband
He’s at work today, and there’s a hearing. He said he felt sick about it, sick with fear, worry, shame, that sense of failure and the weight of the world being so heavy on his shoulders. At least I think…
Either/Or???
WARNING: Thorough rant and uncomfortably-directed God stuff ahead… I ran across an article yesterday that purported to give a young woman advice about marrying a man who had a porn addiction. The well-meaning author took a sagely-spiritual, egotistical approach and…
you have to leave the shore
His love is a deep, deep ocean, and I know this, but I sometimes pretend I don’t because I prefer the shore, because the view is better from here. but really, I’m not moving because I prefer the warm sand…
No.
Keep your chin up. Look at the good around you. You must keep going. God is good, God is good, God is good, God is Good. These are the things you tell yourself to move forward when your heart breaks.…
Burnout
She posted about burnout, and how she got it. I clearing my Reader, thinking I’d skip over her post, but she said, “I worked myself out of being myself…” and I know how she feels. I read her heart and…