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Eagles in Flight
Read more: Eagles in FlightHis hands outstretch the heavens gleam His eyes alight fluorescent streams of wonder
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Jesus Christ, Our Living Hope – A Reflection on George Floyd’s Murder
Read more: Jesus Christ, Our Living Hope – A Reflection on George Floyd’s MurderI’m excited to share a guest post from my beautiful friend, Tenell Felder. Tenell is a spirit-filled, Christ-centered woman of faith who compels the heart to draw nearer to Jesus. Tenell currently works at the University of South Carolina and some of her hobbies include cooking, reading and going on walks. Her love for the…
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That Ride at The Fair…
Read more: That Ride at The Fair…In Holbrook, Arizona, on the cusp of Route 66 and wide-open desert, the county fair rolled into town every September. And every year, my family would take me and my brothers for our annual thrill fest of funnel cakes and Ferris Wheel rides. With blue wristbands and dusty tennis shoes, we’d glide around the fairgrounds…
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How To Thrive in 2018
Read more: How To Thrive in 2018Thrive. /thrīv/ v. To flourish. To propser. “To grow vigorously” Merriam Webster’s Dictionary says. Every new year commences on January 1st like a brand-new beginning for all to behold. Dreams loom ahead. Goals lie in waiting. Resolutions and aspirations liven our spirits once again, as we ponder the potential of what’s yet to…
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The Illusion of No Progress
Read more: The Illusion of No Progress“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”…
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The Peace of Paul: “What has happened… has actually resulted in…”
Read more: The Peace of Paul: “What has happened… has actually resulted in…”“And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, so that you can determine what really matters and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” –Philippians 1:9-11 As we dive into the letter to the Philippians,…
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Stress and Frustration: The Accompaniments of Greatness
Read more: Stress and Frustration: The Accompaniments of GreatnessDavid was deemed “a man after God’s own heart” in 1 Samuel 13:14. Yet reading through the psalms, we get to know David as a man who knew much frustration. Much agony. Much stress. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from my deliverance and from my…
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God Did Not Create Us to Hate Each Other
Read more: God Did Not Create Us to Hate Each OtherThe recent events surrounding unjust killings along with the steady escalation of racial tension in America are grieving to witness. This isn’t what we were created for. This is not who we are. No one wins in this. God created us to be like Him. To reflect His goodness. To demonstrate His grace. To show…
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things break every day
Read more: things break every daythere’s a story I heard it’s hard to remember her mind is losing it misery infusing it bruising it confusing it with what she thinks is real and the rose grows against the gray things break every day There’s something you love. God’s gonna let…
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Running Out of Numbing Solution: When Nothing in Life is Enough
Read more: Running Out of Numbing Solution: When Nothing in Life is EnoughThis has really been a tough season for me in so many different ways. I’ve never felt as low as I do right now, but I’ve never reached a greater epiphany than I have the past several days. For the first time in my life, I’m experiencing what this whole theology of God being enough…