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dawning glory
I have been stumbling blindly through these strange days, trying to find my footing. My equilibrium is wildly off-balance, swinging between extremes of frantic busyness and dull paralysis. This isn’t the first time God has pointed out to me that my erratic emotions need a tempering hand, nor will it be the last time He extends His to bring me back into peace. Peace. Shalom for body, soul, and spirit. Not the absence of trouble, fear, or uncertainty. Instead, a table prepared for feasting while my enemies swarm around. A resting place at the very center of the storm. “Come apart with Me,” He beckons, “Abide with Me, and be…
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an invitation to expand
Since my roommate moved out 8 months ago to get married and start a new life elsewhere, I had left the door to her old room closed. Sure, I took advantage of her walk-in closet for some overflow storage boxes and stashed an empty file cabinet on the wall where her desk used to be. Other than that, though, the room remained empty and silent at the end of the hallway, not really a part of my home at all. Once school ended for the summer and I turned in my year-end checklist, all that started to change. I felt the Lord’s nudging to step out in faith with a…
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just a touch
“And the woman was healed from that moment…” It’s a beautiful, hopeful ending to a redemptive story — but what a long, painful road this unnamed woman traveled before realizing herself in it … Twelve years she had carried around in her body this painful, mysterious bleeding — twelve years! Bound by Levitical laws, such bleeding made her unclean — and not only her, but anyone she touched, or anyone who touched anything she touched. Twelve years without human touch — save the painful, mortifying examinations of the endless stream of doctors and so-called “healers” she consulted until her money ran out. Not one could give her what she craved…
