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completely different
There is still pain in life. There is still sadness and heaviness. And even recently, in the dead of winter, I can find myself just wanting the sun to come, just wanting to smell the fresh air of spring, just wanting something new. I find myself feeling lonely and like I’m just going through the motions so much that I can often forget. I forget that God has already given me something new. I forget that I have access to that newness every single day.
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walk in the light
There’s never been a time where the things of God were not somewhere in my sphere of knowing. From a young age my desire was to please Him who sent his Son for my sins and to do what was right in his sight. I was a good kid and I liked to obey the rules. I felt safe meeting standards. It felt good to be good. But unbeknownst to me, sin was already crouching at the door. I was uniting my heart with a lie and weaving my identity with death. For perhaps it is the most dangerous thing in the world to believe this: that I am good.…
