Fishing With Jesus

By: Molly December 3, 2018December 10, 2018 CRISSCROSSING GRACECasting Crowns, comeback, failure, Jentezen Franklin, One Awkward Moment, outcast, second chances

Simon Peter announced, “I’m going fishing.” John 21: 3 This is one of my favorite stories in the Bible. I suppose because it’s not so much about fishing, as it is about about the recommissioning of a man who had really blown it—and I mean big time! This is a story about Peter, the guy who…

Broken Prayers for Tidal Waves

By: Molly November 21, 2018December 10, 2018 BOOK REVIEWSCalifornia wildfires, Casting Crowns, GRIEF, Home, LOSS, Riches Stored In Secret Places, Verdell Davis

There is just no preparation for sudden loss. It feels like a tidal wave engulfs you. And while I was thankful, for all the cards and books I received from friends, there was one book, that literally saved me. Riches Stored In Secret Places, by Verdell Davis, reached down into that ocean of darkness, and…

Kindness Is Compassionate Acceptance

By: Molly October 17, 2018 CRISSCROSSING GRACEacceptance, Casting Crowns, compassionate, Jesus, kindness, Nobody, riffraff, Someone Priceless, The Church, TheUnQuo, William Cory Stanley

Maybe our finest hours or greatest moments are not meant to be well known, but subtle, seemingly unnoticed acts of kindness felt by the souls we touch. —William Cory Stanley What do I mean by compassionate acceptance? Well, let’s begin by examining each word first. Google says COMPASSIONATE means: feeling or showing sympathy and concern for…

Crisscrossing Grace

By: Molly October 5, 2018December 10, 2018 CRISSCROSSING GRACECory Asbury, crisscrossing, Grace, intersecting, Isn't He (This Jesus), Jesus Christ, Natalie Grant, reckless love

I kept crisscrossing God’s grace for years without recognizing it for what it was. I didn’t believe God cared. I believed in bootstrapping effort. I believed in coincidental circumstances. I believed in a world where abandonment and rejection was the rule not the exception. But a God of loving grace? I couldn’t relate to the…

Trashed To Treasured – Here Be Lions

By: Molly August 28, 2018December 10, 2018 CRISSCROSSING GRACEHere Be Lions, HOPE, I Belong To You, new beginningLeave a Comment

“It’s not victory that makes a man. It’s his defeats.” ― Pierce Brown I see rays of brilliance in Mr. Brown’s writing. And he’s right, sometimes our life gets trashed! Unfortunately, while there are grains of truth in what he writes, there is a vast difference between standing on bedrock and standing on shifting sand.…

Victory and Confidence Comes From Him Alone

By: Molly April 28, 2018September 7, 2018 CONFIDENT FAITH & HOPEconfidence, God, God Alone, never give up, Psalm 62, victory

I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will never be shaken. Psalm 62:1-2 NLT “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” ― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Where does victory come from? When the climb…

The Dreamer

By: Molly April 11, 2016September 26, 2018 JOURNEY TO HABAKKUK'S VINEYARD, WORDS THAT DANCEdream, dreamer, GRIEF, LOSS

Dear Child of Mine ~ I see you there, All burdened down with weight and care. I see your tears as you clutch it so, Your precious dream that died… (I know.) I understand the hopes you held, The longing wish that all would meld. I know it seems “too late” to dream, As though…

Hi, I’m Molly!

I love words. And stories! Especially stories about overcoming. Stories about HOPE. I believe hope is the one thing (after Jesus) that none of us can live without! So I write. Stories that I pray will bring hope to anyone who is struggling. If that’s you? I want you to know one thing today. I…

Songs In The Night

…Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night Job 35:10 “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 “The LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all who…

HOPE In All Circumstances

I waited and waited and waited some more, patiently, knowing God would come through for me. Then, at last, he bent down and listened to my cry. He stooped down to lift me out of danger from the desolate pit I was in, out of the muddy mess I had fallen into. Now he’s lifted…

Am I Stuck In A Room?

By: Molly December 10, 2018

CRISSCROSSING GRACEBreakthrough, caring evangelism, Chris McClarney, community, outreach

I don’t want to be part of a Church that gets stuck in a room. —Eric Johnson Every so often, someone says something that sums up everything that’s been swirling around inside of me just looking for a place to land. So, I was just listening to this sermon about a week ago, and just…

Fishing With Jesus

By: Molly December 3, 2018December 10, 2018

CRISSCROSSING GRACECasting Crowns, comeback, failure, Jentezen Franklin, One Awkward Moment, outcast, second chances

Distance, God, And You

By: Molly November 26, 2018November 26, 2018

CRISSCROSSING GRACECoram Deo, Encounter, Here Be Lions, HOLY SPIRIT

Have you ever looked up to the stars at night and thought, “There might be a God, but He’s way out there somewhere, in the distance.” I had always felt it. This distance. All of my life—I felt out of sync with what was around me. Family. School. Church. God. Wherever I was, there was them, then there…

Broken Prayers for Tidal Waves

By: Molly November 21, 2018December 10, 2018

BOOK REVIEWSCalifornia wildfires, Casting Crowns, GRIEF, Home, LOSS, Riches Stored In Secret Places, Verdell Davis

Potluck Pizzazz!

By: Molly November 20, 2018November 20, 2018

PINTEREST BRILLIANCEappetizers, holiday buffet, office potluck, thanksgiving, vegan

It’s that time of year again. You’re going to a potluck with your “tribe” and you need something simple, quick and with a little pizzazz please! Well, here it is… quick, simple, healthy, and definitely vegan (Lord, love ’em!) I used to dread this time of year, when all the gang at Ernest & Julio…

Unchanging Love

By: Molly November 15, 2018November 21, 2018

BOOK REVIEWS, CRISSCROSSING GRACEcomfort, Corey Voss, faithful friend, I Will Call, love, Lydia Ingegneri, Naomi Zacharias, Natalie Brenner, The Power of Human Touch, This Undeserved Life

“Comfort, yes, comfort my people,” says your God. Isaiah 40:1 TLB What do you say when the unchanging-unthinkable happens? I believe—nothing at all. Yes, you don’t speak. You—do. You reach out your arms and wrap them around the one who is hurting. You weep together. You pray silently for them. You call out to God…

Waterfall

By: Molly November 9, 2018November 9, 2018

BOOK REVIEWS, CRISSCROSSING GRACEGrace, GRIEF, HOPE, I Belong To You, LOSS, Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life1 Comment

“…the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.” ― Natalie Brenner Grief often comes like a waterfall. It can bury us in torrents of emotions, so powerful, so outside ourselves and beyond our control, that those torrents threaten to wash us out into a sea…

Hands of The Potter

By: Molly November 2, 2018November 2, 2018

CRISSCROSSING GRACECasting Crowns, cruciform, In The Hands Of The Potter, pain, revelation, Suffering, transformation, undone

Do we really believe our lives are created by the hands of The Potter? That is what Psalm 139 teaches us, that we are His creations formed in secret in our Mother’s wombs, and exclusively by His hands. I tell you, I have heard sermons for most of my life attesting to the truth, that…

The Tassel Of His Tallit

By: Molly October 29, 2018October 29, 2018

CRISSCROSSING GRACEAlisa Turner, confidence, faith, healing, Malachi 4:2, miracles, PRAYER, prayer shawl, tallit, tzitzit

In the crowd that day was a woman who had suffered greatly for twelve years from slow bleeding. Even though she had spent all that she had on healers, she was still suffering. Pressing in through the crowd, she came up behind Jesus and touched the tassel of his prayer shawl. Instantly her bleeding stopped and she was healed. Luke…

Chapters Of Struggle

By: Molly October 24, 2018November 21, 2018

CRISSCROSSING GRACEAm I A Soldier Of The Cross, Isaac Watts, Jesus Culture, LOSS, Psalm 30:5, sorrow, struggle, Your Love Never Fails

We say, “If I can’t do it right, I won’t do it at all!” No, before you get it right you’ll probably get it wrong. In every story of success there are chapters of struggle, but they are chapters of learning and growth. —Jentzen Franklin I wish, when I came back to the church (a returned…