A few years ago, about a second before the kids were going back to school, my enneagram 7 husband says, “We should take a family trip. To South Dakota.” I looked at him blankly. Because… planning. In order to make it work we would need to leave in about a minute. OK,...
“The single most frequently attested context in which the meek are mentioned in the Bible is one in which they are vindicated and rewarded for their patient endurance.” And yet, when you hear the word, “meek,” my guess is if you’re like me, it’s not a quality at the top of our list of those we’re dying to develop. But then we see these hints…
We have a groom that has promised to remove a veil that lies over our hearts too. A veil that whether thick or thin falls between us and our rescuer, and the tricky thing is that often we can’t even see it. Lots of times, we don’t even realize it’s there. We just sort of wonder why Jesus is hard to understand, or why it’s so hard to pray. We fix our eyes on the stuff around us that makes sense, and stop wrestling with the difficult, because… why again?
But that’s going to change.
We call out to one that we trust. We call out when something threatens our peace. What happens when we call out to God?
There is a story about weariness that isn’t often remembered for weariness. It’s one that compels me with his compassion because he knows exhaustion — because in my most noble of efforts I am quite often tired. And the God of the Bible comes after us, and he shows...
You ever have those moments when you laugh so hard at something and then stop and think, “hold up, do I do this too?” This morning I had the pleasure of reading in 1 Samuel 5 with my kids, because TCA is how we do school. EVERY TIME I read this fantastic little...
Nothing draws you to linger over the eternal with quite such strength and relevance as death. This summer, we lost my Mamaw; which we both grieved and celebrated (a remarkably compatible marriage of opposites). We’re currently playing the waiting game with my Papaw...
I’m enamored with the idea of appreciating eternal things. Eternal. It’s attractive because the word itself is just radiating purpose and depth. It’s powerful because it matters -- and ultimately impacts our incentives. It’s a breath of life to the most mundane...
There were rumblings. People were confused. Angry. Nothing was cohesive except the mounting chaos consuming the crowd. In bursts of brutal beckoning the average onlooker was bludgeoned with an agenda akin to a kind of evil they did not even appreciate. There were...
I went to a Lady Antebellum concert last week with my handsome hubs. Loved it. And I wasn’t the only one. It was impressive. There is just something about looking out into a room with the capacity to hold 15,000 people, and watch the nearly full auditorium become...