How limited is my view of God! As of late, I've been wrestling with questions about direction in life and letting go of my conceptions of what God's blessing on my life should look like, and it's only now that I'm realizing that I have such little experience of God's power or His glory or His love. I'm only now realizing that I struggle to trust Him with every part of me because I haven't come into the knowledge of His love for every part of me....
To kick off this series on prayer, I want to focus on the experience of prayer. To express this sentiment, I have asked my dear friend Rachel Jackson to pen a creative piece on her experience of prayer. So without further ado:
Prayer.
Oh, I know this place so well;
The place we come to meet.
Oh, I know the way He looks at me
When I dance before Him, free.
Oh I know the path so well;
The path we walk upon.
Oh, I know it won’t be very long
Till...
I've been hearing a lot of messages lately about God's love. God's love. God's affection. As one speaker put it, the word love is used so much that it fails to impact us the way it should when used in regard to the way God feels about us. God is affectionate toward us. Affectionate. Yet even this word seems dead to me, or I to it. Should that move me to cry to God for a heart that can respond to Him? In some small way, it does. Maybe if I start...
Lately, I've been consumed with looking up. Literally. Here's a picture for you. I think my obsession with looking up has some meaning to it. I'll get to that in a little bit. I've also been enjoying gazing at vast expanses such as this one. There's something inspiring about wide-open spaces—something freeing that beckons you to run wild and take ownership of and responsibility for all that you see. Maybe that's just me, maybe it's not. I've...
I was feeling defeated today. What do I do when I feel defeated? I talk to Jesus. So, J and I were talking today and He showed me something that I hadn't fully realized. I've been comparing myself with my brothers and sisters in Christ, trying to measure up to an imaginary standard of excellence that would not bring fulfillment. I was questioning God. Why do there seem to be so many people much more talented than I? Why do I feel unneeded? Why...
