Tag: encouragement

Breaking Hope

  Sometimes we find ourselves on the downhill side of our journey, coasting yet unmoving as we go. We are imperceptibly unaware of the momentum, but somehow we know we are moving. And then we stop. These are the shocking...

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When Grace is a Struggle

There are some days when the weight of the world feels a little more than my shoulders can carry upon it. There doesn’t have to be any one thing in particular that makes it feel that way; it just does.  Those days make...

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Into the Stillness

  When the quiet places draw me in I feel the pull of grace  heavy upon my soul.  As I follow that prompting , I find myself immersed in wonder and mystery that is Christ.  Either in the calm early morning  when the world...

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Crashing Waves of Mercy

We set out to purposely look for a lighthouse, to find a beacon that blazes bright across the sky. We considered the path and we planned, loosely, for the journey. I can’t tell you why I am mesmerized by these statues of...

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Rediscovering Graces

Life has been busy and full lately. Some of the fullness is because it is  that time of year, others because I am learning to live grace in real life, not just typing about it to you on my keyboard, and others because there are...

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Prayer of Remembrance

Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily clings to...

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Words Like Medicine

  Words flow, consonants and vowels display in response to the pressure of a keystroke as the cursor blinks… waiting.   They line parchment, bound and jacketed to fit close on shelves, housed in sections and in piles. Words...

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Reflecting His Grace

I watch close as the shades tend to be drawn around the hearts that flutter in and out of my day. I see their safety nets cast out around them, carefully laid just so. I feel the walls go up, the unmet hello’s and the quickly...

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Relentless Grace

  The phrase Relentless Grace has been passing around in my head over and over the last few days.  I scribbled it out on a piece of paper when I was planning a special message I wanted to write to you, connecting the...

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Beholding Broken Beauty  

    It’s a rare moment when we can look at something which is broken and find the beauty in the midst of the chaos.  Yet, that is exactly what the Father sees when He looks our way. He sees who we are meant to be. He...

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It’s the Season of Giving— Awards!

  Earlier this month my sweet friend, Sarah Ann who writes over at Faith Along the Way, blessed me with an encouraging gift.   She sweetly shared that she really enjoyed the words that I write and wanted to honor me with an...

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