Oh Jerusalem, you’ve given me so much this weekend: adventure, good fellowship, a sun-burned nose, and a heart-full for pondering.
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From Head to Foot
Annie Downs loves Scotland, ice cream, and unexpected shades of nail polish. Even more, she loves Jesus — and talking about Jesus to girls like you…and me. I’m older than Annie’s intended audience. In fact, I’m even a little older than Annie herself. But she had me from the very beginning: from the snow day…
The Perfect Christian Girl (part 2)
I can no longer take refuge in a life that looks perfect because it follows the formula of an extreme-conservative subculture. It was that very image that was standing between me and fully knowing God’s heart. He doesn’t want me to take refuge in a life of familiarity and comfort and “cleanness.” He wants me to take refuge in Him.
The Perfect Christian Girl (part 1)
For so long I was the “perfect” Christian girl. It was my whole identity; it was my source of comfort; it was my source of pride; it was what I lived for.
And I wasn’t alone…
Tomorrow
I sat alone in the moonlight,
And thought me of today-
Of the joys and the sorrows
That had come along the way…
From — To
Rather than making a new years’ resolution list, what about creating your own “from – to” list? I started to realize the last few years that the Lord weaves different themes throughout my year. This past year was a journey of the Lord calling me from zealous passion to…
first
I can’t keep procrastinating on trust. If I can’t trust Jesus with this unwanted, anticlimactic, homely, nubbly, little faith-tester of a circumstance (whatever it happens to be today), I won’t be ready to trust Him tomorrow with something more grandiose. Either I trust Him, or I don’t. Right here is where the rubber meets the road.
A Year of Not Trying Any Harder
As last year came to a close, I did feel that sweet sorrow of closing a familiar book, but the stronger emotion was definitely regret.
There is nothing sweet about regret. Regret is bitter and unhelpful. Yet looking back at my last year’s goals and resolutions only increased the bitterness…
