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…
Tag: love
The subversive temptation of where
When my sanity returns, I don’t have a need to inflict punishment on those who are blocking my desired outcome. The process of how I move through this situation becomes more important than where the process takes me. I remember that how and why I do things defines who I am more than where I end up.
The Real Passion
It’s already day two of the new year. Winter is not my favorite season, but not my least favorite either. Overnight we had a dusting of snow, enough to put … Continue reading The Real Passion
Unforced Rhythms of Grace
She would take hold of the bow like a club with a tight fist and drag it almost violently back and forth across the violin that sat precariously in front of her on her collar bone- not balanced on the shoulder where it would eventually need to rest in order to move to richer sounds and advanced playing ability.
But Not So For You
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
17 January 24 Father, I am restless. I sense more on my plate than I can get to, and I need your guidance to move through it. I read 1 … Continue reading Journal
Messy
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!
A fresh take on advent
Today, I considered a new layer of Advent! Not only celebrating preparing ourselves figuratively for the celebration of the birth of Christ, but a preparation and time of clearing out my own heart to offer a birth place for not only the savior who does live in us, but with him comes the dreams that God has in mind for me to give birth to.
Lost the plot?
** This post is the first I have read as an audio. In honor of my good friend and prayer partner who is struggling with some reading issues and headaches … Continue reading Lost the plot?
What we fear
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.
The Jael Finishing School for Ladies 