With this week’s sermon, came two songs, of sorts–though the first, I guess, should be called a poem, since I didn’t discover a melody as I wrote it. The challenge at the end of this week’s sermon was to believe in Christ as our Mighty God. To cast all our fear, anxiety, our constant need […]
a new song
this is not who I am this old sin-song I sing a lingering melody I did not pen and it did not pin me against myself in Christ—I am free in Christ—I am me a whole creation from the start I was living with a broken heart in a world with a imperfect melody its […]
I am a writer (excerpts).
I wrote over 10,000 words (not including journaling) while traveling last week, and I officially can no longer shake the shocking thought: I want to be a writer. More shocking, the next thought slides up in line: I am a writer. And, so, here are some of those words that I wrote last week, an […]
abundance
I found myself in tears a few nights ago; fresh off a FaceTime date, I open my emails to two reminders of things I’m longing for, things I’m desperate for—to go and to write. My heart wavers in belief towards them both. Yes, I’m in the middle of going—the exact middle of my term, in fact. […]
Psalm 37: He Won’t Leave Me.
A few years ago, I did a Beth Moore study through the Psalms of Ascent (120-133), and it quickly become a really needed study for me, as well as the friends I studied it with, for many different reasons, but the biggest one was this: rewriting the psalms we studied—making them personal. She led us […]
And we are these orphans
“In You the orphan finds mercy.” [Hosea 14.3] And we are these orphans, forsaken by the false fathers we crafted, in need of the mercy You alone can give. We are these orphans, who flee Your pursuit, the one who alone can save & secure us again. We are these orphans, desperate and dying of […]