A Wilted History

The vase is beautiful, but the flowers within the vase have wilted and now lay limp and dry in stagnant water. The vase is your life and the flowers resemble the current condition of your faith. At some point you stopped believing and the beauty of your...

Emotional Gravity

Recently, you have felt the weight of something pressing down upon your life. It has become like emotional gravity. This constant pressure is having a cumulative effect on your ability to see the goodness of God in this season. The effect of this gravity...

An Uncomfortable Nakedness

That challenging experience in the last season of your life has left you feeling exposed. You are experiencing an uncomfortable nakedness in the presence of those who know what took place. But you have a different reality than this feeling of exposure. You are not...

How Long?

You are wondering how long everything will take. You wonder how long you will live – how long before love comes your way – how long before someone walks into his or her destiny – how long before your faithfulness is rewarded? You are asking how long...

The Two Sorrows

There are two kinds of sorrow. One sorrow will lead us away from the source of our pain into a place of isolation. The other sorrow will lead us toward the source of our pain to embrace its presence in a fellowship of suffering with Christ. The sorrow that leads us...