Coffee with friends and repentance seem to go hand in hand for me. of course if you think of repentance as groveling at the burning altar of judgement with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, then that is certainly not what i am talking about. repentance means to change your mind and turn around. Paul, …
journal songs
knowing i'm going in the studio to record soon mostly makes me nervous as hell. i've been singing all my life - Mama said i was singing before i started talking, which doesn't really mean much i guess, except that i love to do it. I had laryngitis once in high school and it wasn't …
monsters and waves
we get ourselves into trouble. everything gets clouded and starts to swirl. the waves on the ocean that looked like they would have made great surfing, suddenly are monsters trying to devour us with one gulp. when our hearts begin to rage and cry out we start grasping like a drowning man for whatever is …
thoughts on the sovereignty and safety of God
https://soundcloud.com/guitarsallie/you-made-me i recorded this in my little office on my mac... some time ago. over the years i have had struggled so much with the fear of being out of control of things that happen in my life - feeling like other people had the ability to shut down the calling on my life …
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the heart matter
we all know the scripture "without faith it's impossible to please God"... it always seemed like such a looming thing. a you-better-have-faith-or-else kind of thing. but i propose it is just a statement of fact. it's just the nature of things. what the Father really cares about is our hearts. above all else - above …
a new day
the things we long and hope for can seem less realistic than a trip to the moon. i know that sometimes the things i have dreamed do. so what happens when the page turns and there's a clean, fresh space just waiting for you to write your life on it? will you be so braced …
Dear Papa
When you tell me things, does it encourage other people when i share it with them? Or does it put some odd heaviness on them because you revealed it to me and not them? I am excited about the revelations you share with me, but sometimes i think it just confuses people if i try …
Are you telling me I can dodge bullets?
i keep asking the Lord for a word... and what i keep thinking about is the picture of the two realities He showed me on the way to Tennessee that december. he told me it was ok to hear what the doctors had to say, and if all they saw was bad stuff... because they …
the river
my blood still runs a little warmer after a deep, long drink from the River last night. i forgot. i forgot what it was like to just get lost and found all at once... to hear voices of your heart's family rising all around you. it's precious and i savored every drop.
intimacy
I wrote this July 2010. I was smack in the middle of my journey to being restored on the inside toward intimacy. the "it" is intimacy. i was made to be open and intimate and passionate - and this is my reflection in a moment of time on that part of my journey - so, …
