Words in the dirt (12 minutes of what’s on my heart) [Video]
This morning I was out walking, and I wanted to share what was on my heart. So here it is.
forgiveness
The power to be free is so simple but so very hard sometimes
This is so very worth sharing. / Kor describes how she and her twin sister, Miriam, were deported from Romania to Auschwitz in May 1944 along with the rest of their family. As they waited at the entrance to the concentration camp, a Nazi walked along shouting “Twins, twins.” He asked Kor’s mother whether her two …
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Heart surgery…
I’m living through some humbling revelations right now. Revelations that opened a door into more ugliness that exists inside my heart, but which lead to hope. Let me back up. This past weekend, my father, sister, and three brothers all came to crowd into my house and fill it with suitcases and stories and laptops …
After rebellion…
I “found” this Psalm a few weeks back, but what I saw in it keeps sticking with me. It’s something we all know in our head, but we so often let guilt and accusation keep us from truly realizing. What I’m talking about, specifically, is consequences. We all know that sin has consequences, and that …
Words of Affirmation: God says you are all of this
(In a recent post, I wrote a little about the Five Love Languages, as written about by Gary Chapman in The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. I explained how I found myself wondering if they apply to our relationship with God. This is the third of what turned out to be …
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Once upon a time…
Once upon a time, in a land far away, two knights were sent forth by their king. Each knight pledged an oath of loyalty to the other, to stand by them and to even die for other, if necessary. These two knights were relatively inexperienced when they left on their first mission, but as time …
Not Guilty…
Do you all remember when I posted a number of months back about the symbolism I saw in the recent movie about Esther, in the scene where she comes before the king? This morning I found a new song that speaks of the same thing…a song so powerful that words really can’t describe it. Picture …
The glory of God’s pardon…
“I’m not worthy.” Versions of that sentiment are some of the most powerful lies that keep us from fellowshipping with God. So often, we feel that whatever we’ve done is one too many for God to pardon. It’s above and beyond what we believe is forgivable. We’ve done it one too many times. Or maybe, …
Forgiveness can be easy…
This is something that’s been rattling around in my heart for quite a while now. I just haven’t managed to post it until now. My pastor was recently talking about the seriousness of unforgiveness… how it not only hurts the one holding onto it, but if you take Jesus’s parable in Matthew 18 literally, might …