How can a good, loving God who is in control allow such deep pain and suffering? This can be one of our deepest heartfelt questions. And we can bring it to Him and wrestle with Him for answers. As we wrestle to rest in His presence, we find other questions and distractions that can keep us from The… Read more

We are complex. On one hand, we can experience God moving deeply in our lives through a growing intimate relationship.  And at the same time in our flesh, fallen nature, and fallen world, we are fractured. Pain and suffering remains and reminds us that it is not as it should be. We are not as we should be.… Read more

Trauma and its associated pain and suffering can create a spin cycle inside of me. It’s that frantic excitability that puts me on a rat wheel…spin and spin…incessant. The underlying anxiety and racing thoughts are debilitating. To escape, I have developed coping mechanisms in an attempt to survive, control, manage, and numb. These can become compulsive or addictive. I might… Read more

I begin to learn that I can come out, come to Him, surrender. I find rest. I sit in who I am becoming in His presence – His child, His bride, His friend. I sit in who He is becoming to me – my Savior, my Rescuer, my Father, my Husband, my Friend, my Comforter, my Keeper, my… Read more

He is sovereign AND I have a free will. The ANDs of God. Two truths that co-exist simultaneously with an infinite gap of mystery in between. I accept that I don’t understand how they work together.  AND I can learn to accept the mystery and trust its Creator and His purpose in it. AND I can walk with Him… Read more

It’s hard to look at ourselves through the lens of truth. We avoid the pain associated with real self-examination. And yet it cannot be avoided. The only way out is through it and we must enter this space in order to be healed. We do not go it alone. He is with us. Coming out,… Read more