God will take you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you cannot achieve on your own. –Paul Tripp Inefficiency. Futility. Wasted time. Those are villains in my kingdom, three of my greatest foes. And they all piled into the van with me yesterday 9:30- The dew was still on the…
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace. Joni Eareckson Tada When Abbi Met Joni Mom had left her copy out. So when I found The Unforgettable Story of a Young Woman’s Struggle Against Quadriplegia and Depression with that puzzling picture of a pretty young…
PTSD-like, I jolt upright, eyes saucer-wide in midnight’s strobing light. At a single crack, I’m on high alert, as the thunder rolls and the lightening strikes. As the rain pours down, again. Because it used to be that I’d snuggle cozy undercover in a thunderstorm, as the rain poured down. But that all changed last week….
The more your affections are set on Christ, your true husband … the easier it will be to take you out of the world. He who has laid up his heart in heaven, will think comfortably of laying down his head on earth. George Swinnock, The Fading of the Flesh and the Flourishing of Faith…