Category: modern life
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Warrior reflections💐
Being sick has been a “severe mercy ” for me. That’s from a book title that I saw when I was reading AGrief Observed by CS Lewis. My body grows weaker and more puny, while my spirit has just keeps getting stronger and better! Like Joni Earekson Tada. Or Keanu Reeves. Or WonderWoman. #bethethingiwishihad…
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Deconstruct my Doubts
“5. Praying Through Doubt – PSALMS: The Language of Prayer – Tim Mackie (The Bible Project)” on YouTube
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Bloom. 💐
I know why the caged bird sings. ~Maya Angelou Getting sick. Has given me many good things. The elemental suffering has brought much good. takes away my busyness. forces me to slow down. Flesh mortifying. Clarity inducing. Raised to life. Priorities straightening. Do or die Sink or swim Blooming. 🌼
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Reboot my ❤
New memories. Flashback nightmare last night. Father I need a refuge right now. A safe, protected place, where I can sleep and eat and rest Then go back and fight. You are my bunker. My bivouac. (Sp?) My safe place. My good jou jou. Hide me under your wings for a little. Don’t let me…
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Opportunity
My feelings were wrong. Hubby said: “absolutely not; I do not want you to be a chat host at our online Church.” I felt my foot permanently on the brake, stifled, held back, marginalized and voiceless. What about my future all my wisdom and verbal skills, organization and drive?! Every feminist bone in my upbringing…
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How we roll🌼
I was thinking about this with Jesus this morning.I want to be like this in my relationships. You know?OpenTrustingNo defense Because that’s how I rollNot because the world is perfectly safe That’s how I can be impregnable, unassailable, undefeated.
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Door of hope
If, through the process of healing and growth, you have found yourself in that in-between place that feels like an abyss, understand that He is the pro at restoring the years you feel have been lost. Don’t try to construct a spaceship to get you back to earth as quickly as possible. Most of us…
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Hope when things suck
The way the 🌎 is right now doesn’t get to determine my reality. That stuff is there and I need to be a good American, but it is not my only reality. Jesus Christ is. I needed this today.