Have you ever been provoked to jealousy? When I first think of the word "jealousy" I think of something that needs to be quenched, done away with, or removed from me. It connotes a lack of harmony and inner turmoil. On the surface, it's something I just want to get past, but like any emotion—toxic or otherwise—it points to something deeper. For this reason, jealousy is a gift in the spiritual realm. There are heroes of the faith and...
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...
Have you ever been in a place where you're overwhelmed by a deluge of truth? It's like the facts of life are rolling in today and I realize how much I just need to trust God. Thank You, Jesus for opening my eyes. I feel like I have been given new information on my immediate future. It's information that is hard to accept joyfully, because on the one hand, it reinforces the fact that I might not be coming back to school in the Fall. On the other...
