Boundaries, Idols, & Grace

“And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.” – A. B. Yehoshua “At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how [...]

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The Hard Questions Yield Hard Answers

Sometimes we ask hard questions of God. We ask Him to show us things, paths, futures. We cannot ever anticipate just how God will choose to answer those questions; we have no idea the methods that He will use and the ways in which He will work. Often, we have no idea how high the [...]

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Nice Is Not Enough

‘Niceness’ — wholesome, integrated personality — is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must [...]

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Secret Stirring

I feel it in my innermost heart–in that secret part of me that I share with few, except here in this blog for those who care to read it. I feel it in my fingertips. My skin feels flashes of hot and cold across it when I let my mind start to wander. I want [...]

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Sweet Illumination

“One thing…one thing… this is what I desire… Sweet illumination. Sweet illumination. That I may gaze upon His face. Oh to know this Man. Sweet illumination.” “It’s not works that leads to a knowledge of God. Are you tracking with that? Because one is the gospel, and the other is religion. Religion will kill you, [...]

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“At Last Honesty”…A Revisiting, If You Will

I take no credit for putting the following prayer on paper, for although it is exactly and precisely what I’ve come to discover is my conversation with God, I was not the first to write it down. Taken from an article by Hudson Russell Davis, I’ve written about this before in my blog, but when [...]

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I Count It All As Lost

Saviour I come Quiet my soul remember Redemption’s hill Where Your blood was spilled For my ransom Everything I once held dear I count it all as lost Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord, I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to [...]

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Marriage and What’s Important…just some thoughts

In church for the past few weeks, we’ve been studying the idea of “marriageability”–and what principles are necessary to form the foundation of a good, healthy, happy, and honoring marriage. This topic has always been on my mind…considering I’ve always been a girl who wants to get married. However, I feel as though I’ve finally [...]

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Another Crossroads

I feel like I’ve been confronted with many crossroads recently, as I’m fulfilling the very purpose of this blog–finding out what it means to be the girl who changed her mind and the world, maybe not really the whole vast world but at least my own world. I’ve always been the “good” girl. That’s who [...]

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So I Jumped

I talk a lot in here about the need to take chances. I also talk about the fear of the unknown. I mull over the big questions in this little girl’s mind–the ones about God and love and life and faith and fear and forgiveness. I write about wanting to be healed from heartache. I’ve [...]

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