I hate that hemmed-in feeling of helplessness. Especially when you combine it with the great “unknown” we all must live with. I know now “certainty” is a myth we must all surrender. I’ve mentioned before, I grew up in some rather chaotic circumstances. Our family “looked” normal enough from the outside looking in. But from the inside?…
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Oh, Beloved, I see how weary you have become. You have warred a “good warfare” but there is a limit to all that body, mind, and spirit can take. Day (and especially) at night—your enemy mercilessly attacks. You wonder at your despair? You wonder, “Why hasn’t this changed yet? Where is my relief?”—yes? Yes. But…
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Waiting is HARD to do. There it is plain and simple. But for the one who is treading water in the dark waiting for the break of day? It goes beyond hard. It is excruciating! No one knew that better than the psalmist who wrote, Help, God—the bottom has fallen out of my life! …I…
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I sat in my ashes each day thinking, “Is this what God calls abundant?” I really wanted to experience the abundant life Jesus spoke of, but how in the world was I supposed to look at the shambles my life had become, and see it as abundance? I was raised believing in a God who was…
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