Living in the Story
Carefully pulling the bulb out of the soil, I watched dirt crumble off and into the hole left behind. Did I follow the instructions correctly, I wondered? They weren’t very clear instructions… weeks have gone by and nothing is happening. The bulb sits there, peeking out of the soil, unchanging. The lack of movement is […]
It is a season of waiting. Desperation and even hunger can be a motivator to seek Him. To earnestly dig in His word and use resources to reveal insight into what lies beneath the surface of our English renderings of God’s Word. And so the following passage beaconed me one day with its echoes of […]
I was riding my bike on a crisp Saturday morning. I glanced down to check how close my front tire was to the edge of the road and narrowly missed the caterpillar. Burnished red with a black strip running down it’s back, it had made it across the entire road with a few inches to spare and I nearly squashed it beneath my bike tire.
Anxiety can be defined as “unbelief in God’s future-grace” (John Piper). Though a hard definition it does address the thorny issue of the future. I was a young child when anxiety became an oft felt reality. And, as a child, already sensitive to God in my life I was wrestling with believing Him for each […]