sometimes i wonder if it's just my insatiable human need to fix things and make it all make sense and to scrap an answer out of the dirt that makes me believe the way i believe. i'm too tired to say much, but i have wondered this more than once today. but the conclusion i …
New Year: My One Word for 2015 and Why I Can’t Leave 2014 Behind
I recently came across this blog and couldn't have said it better myself. Really great thoughts for the day. Check out her blog - and her reading list! You won't be sorry 🙂
Out of the Darkness
Looking back and re-blogging the ones that stick out to me. Here’s one for more reflection from May 2011.
I’ve come to understand over the years that all of life really is about perspective. How we see things, through the lens of our experience and emotion and thought processes, determines how we interpret every single teeny tiny thing that comes our way – well, big or small… the events that our lives consist of all wrapped in the neat little package of perspective – making it good or evil in our sight. And we look at things and judge it so – good or evil – for better or worse. And because of that there are quite a lot of us walking wounded… We have gone into the places we believe God has called us to and set up camp to do “His work”… (also another largely misunderstood endeavor) and we have laid our hearts and guts on the table and ended up walking away beaten and bloody. I…
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I am the Older Brother
i am the older brother. i stayed behind when my little brother, turned idiot, took off. i am nothing if not loyal. i’m sure you’ve heard about him leaving, it was all anyone could talk about. when he left, he ripped a hole in the very fabric of our family. i hated him. i hated …
what if he had died face down in the mud with the pigs?
i've been thinking a lot about perspective lately... how it's true that perspective doesn't directly change circumstances - but it will determine how you feel about them (which influences further action). initially i thought of this only from the place of having a hopeful perspective in a challenging situation. But then i started wondering what …
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the day the conversation died
and then there was silence. conversation is one of my favorite things - with coffee of course, and maybe some lemon pound cake - but a few months ago one of my favorite conversations came to a dead stop. there was just nothing left to say. this was a 12 year conversation that had always …
Let it Grow Stronger
Making heart connections (with God and people) and music is what my life has always been about regardless of wether or not i could have verbalized it that way. So, needless to say, my songs have mainly focused on love and relationship and desire - it's what makes me come alive. so here's one such song  - …
Go sing your song
I am a song. I also sing songs. There is a difference between just singing and releasing the song you are onto the earth. We have gotten very good at mimicking sounds we think are pretty so we will sound pretty. But i have wonderful news. There is more. I told The Lord several years …
friendship faux pas 101
friendships are hard. like ok, duh. please, ms. blogger, tell me something i don't already know. what i didn't know is that i had ideas about friendships that were more akin to unicorns walking the earth than anything resembling reality.for instance, i didn't know just how important proximity is to friendship. i happen to live …
coffee and repentance
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, …
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