In Lamenting, Surrender
God, please listen as a Father listens to his daughter. Don’t leave me feeling yet again utterly alone and unheard. I have committed my life to live in relationship with you and for years I grew closer and closer to you. You were my everything. I poured my heart out to you and you responded. […]
What We Find at the Graveyard of Dreams
Dreams are made of who we are: our hopes, our deep desires, and the things that bring us life. When it seems like our Father asks us to give dreams up, it feels like giving away a part of us. It can, sometimes, feel like a small death. Other times what is really frightening is […]
Look Again
As I approached my 30th birthday, I found myself weighing my life against the picture I’d had for it in my early 20s. In that picture, by this time, I’d be married with a happy and healthy family, a couple of pets, a thriving career and ministry, weekend adventures, a great social life and, ideally, […]
I Surrender All…Well, Almost
I never wanted this overseas life. My only exposure to cross-cultural work came every 3rd Wednesday night at a small group meeting at church. I remember reading in amazement of the sojourns of Christ followers who were bold enough to step into all that was unknown. Their faith and courage was so great that it […]
This Month’s Theme: Letting Go
“Are our hands off the very blossom of our life? Are all things – even the treasure that He has sanctified – held loosely, ready to be parted with, without a struggle, when He asks for them?” Lilias Trotter, Parables of the Cross And so with open hands we bring to the altar our hopes […]