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What’s the biggest disappointment you’ve experienced in your life? How do you cope? What do you do when good things you thought God promised you are further away than when you trusted him?
“We’ve moved on with another player. The offer is off the table.” When that unjust, punch-in-the-gut news came Wednesday, this truth grounded me. It is the only mindset that could possibly convert that (bitter) disappointment into (real) joy
Something bad happened, Mom. You don’t want to know. So ended our easy Saturday morning. I do want to know, Gabe, I assured, kneeling before him. Then my seven year-old showed me two of the most obscene gestures I’d ever seen. The sun went dark. But ever the prisoner of hope, I thought: Maybe they’re only meaningless motions to…
Would you rather listen? Here’s that link to the Keep On With Abigail Wallace podcast. I’m not good at letting go. Sometimes I hold on to dreams that aren’t God’s plan for me. For better and for worse, I am the bee—the busy bee that won’t rest until it extracts sweet nectar from every flower….
“No other religion dares to take me down to the new beginning. Hence Lent is not a … long brooding over sin. Lent is a journey that could be called an upward descent, but I prefer to call it a downward ascent. It ends before the cross, where we stand in the white light of…
Before they call I will answer;while they are yet speaking I will hear.Isaiah 65:24 A text interrupted Carrie mid-sentence. You won’t believe this-that was from Tina. Her dad’s insurance just approved their request. The IV drip will be allowed at home. Seconds before the text, Cathy had shared a request from Tina. Tina’s father…