Category: Forgiveness

  • Meditations from Psalm 139: Psalm 139:1-Fully Known

    “Lord, You have searched (examined) me and You know me.” Psalm 139:1 Like a skillful doctor who studies an X-ray, MRI or CT scan to see what’s going on beyond what the naked eye can see, so the Lord searches our hearts and our minds. He looks beyond what people can see or know about…

  • Messy

    When I say that I’m a Christ-follower… Don’t shy away Because you think that I think I’m Good Better Holier. Don’t clam up, because you think you can’t share your brokenness. I’m broken. Don’t be silent about your messiness. I’m messy. Don’t pretend to be perfect, together. I’m not. I’m imperfect. I’m never together. If…

  • Racing Thoughts, the Intrusive Whisper and Painful Obedience

    The negative thoughts take laps around my head… Each one racing to take first place… Consuming my brain space. Anxiety growing, Agitation growing. Round and round they go and go and go… Then, an intrusive, quiet whisper asks- “What is it that you are meditating on?” Thoughts stop mid-lap. I realize that I’m doing it…

  • Muddy Thoughts

    I have the choice this year…this day…this minute…the choice of where to put my mind. Where to dwell, linger, what to meditate on. (It is a choice. It’s my choice. It’s an action, a putting or setting of my mind.) It’s real easy to go negative, to allow my mind to dwell on someone else’s…

  • I Want To Be Just Like You.

    “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” So…who am I imitating?

  • To The Ones Crowned In Splendor (or…to the ones whose heads are graciously wrapped in silver or white or gray splendor…) **and a note to the rest of us awaiting that crown**

    We need you. You are not forgotten. Please, don’t give up yet…there are some of us out here who are looking for you. For your stories. For your wisdom. For your advice. We want to know about that path that you’ve walked to earn that beautiful Crown of Splendor that gracefully wraps around your head.…

  • Yada Yada Yada

    Where are you feeling empty?  What have you tried to fill it with? How is that working? Jesus is the One that fills ALL THINGS in EVERY WAY. Nothing else will satisfy us. No one else will satisfy us. We will never find rest until we rest in Him. We will never be full until…

  • John 4:7-14 7There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?”…

  • The Woman

    Submerged in sin, chained within Burdens heavy, heart heavy Hands dirty, heart dirty Heartbroken. Avoiding stares, condemning glares Head low to hide the shame

  • How the Gospel Blooms in Life’s Cracks

    It’s easy to talk about our faith when all’s well.  When it’s all going great and we can smile about blessings and grace and forgiveness and Jesus… …but when stuff hits the fan and life is a MESS…that’s when the Gospel can shout the loudest through us. When we don’t just talk about grace but we cling to it…