Tag: fear

The Author

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I once rode a horse one hundred miles in a day, through a forest fire with a woman on a mule named Danny who sang songs she’d made up to help pass the time…

Present, Relaxed and Ready

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Do I really believe that I can trust God to take care of the entire environment (the universe around me) and lead me through the passageways and narrow gates that are for me? I find myself when I’m honest, thinking it’s my job to figure it all out. This means I have to be pretty busy, and busy minded in order that I don’t miss anything important.

Mighty Peace

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When the LORD speaks, life bursts forth! His voice brings the crumbling of false walls, false selves, false barriers. The voice of the LORD reveals truths previously hidden or obscured. The voice of the LORD obliterates chains and forms of bondage.

But Not So For You

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As the revelation dawned that once again I am seeing the people who create speed bumps and potholes in what I am certain is my well-deserved straight path before me I remember the sons of thunder from Luke 9:54 (“Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”) I imagine Jesus shaking his head at them, and at me, wondering when will you get it?

Journal 1/31/24

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I want to sow a field of trust in God for what he is going to bring out of the ground. I want to take the seeds God is handing me and throw them into the ground without having to know what they are in advance. I want to be a woman who sows those seeds and knows with confidence that in the appointed time (Kairos) the harvest will come!

Messy

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I think God wants to enlarge our territory and calls us to expand into bigger spaces – not because we need to be important, or have influence, or matter more, but because He has limited children willing to say YES to his potentially messy plans, and it’s how he’s able to bless the world!

What we fear

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Fear is everywhere, but those people I see living a passionate life and burning with the fire of the spirit of the son of the living God in their eyes- what they fear is not persecution, or being misunderstood, or not having basic needs met, or even death… they fear losing the connected presence of God in their lives and the intimacy they have said yes to.