The light shone out of emptiness, The void turned into space; From dirt and sea sprung life And the stars up in heaven sang. The Father loves His Son And wanted to give Him a Bride. The youth of love was marred too soon. Paradise was shattered. There’s a garden with an angel Standing guard …
Change has never been easy for me, and still isn’t. When something big changes, I become a tumultuous emotional wreck, and react in extremes. Recently, that means vacillating between “my life is meaningless and I’ll never do anything worthwhile” and “I’m going to drop everything and travel everywhere and move to the farthest away place I …
I need some creativity in my life, it’s just how my soul thrives. Since I’ve had very little time to create art in other ways recently, the result seems to be that I’m writing more poetry rather than prose. With that probably unnecessary preface, here’s a poem I wrote today: ___________________________________ You Are Everything In …
The story of how I learned to play the guitar is a fun one. At the time, I was in the youth group at Kingsfield Church. My friend Cece and I discovered that both of us wanted to learn to play the guitar, so we thought we could try together. On of our fellow students …
Last Wednesday, in the youth group where I volunteer, we were talking about being servants. In the midst of our discussion, one of my girls blurted out, “Can we talk about something else? This makes me really uncomfortable.” My first instinct was to blame her response on her upbringing in our wealthy, superficial Orange County, …
On this Palm Sunday, I wanted to share with you why this has become one of my very favorite holidays: In ancient Rome, “Triumph” was a very significant word. It meant far more than “the act, fact, or condition of being victorious” (dictionary.com definition of “triumph”). A Triumph was an extravagant, joyous parade through the capital city to the temple of Jupiter …
For quite a while now, identity has been near the forefront of my mind. As I’ve been learning more about who I am in God and who He says we are, the desire to put it in writing and share with others has grown. Consequently, I finally began to write what is tentatively called: “Identity: …
It’s funny how much I always need to be reminded of the basics in life. The most fundamental truths I forget the easiest. Bible verses that should fill my mind and heart always, I forget for months at a time. This just happened again. Around me recently there has been much debate over how to …
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. It seems people either love the day, if they have someone to spend it with, or hate it, if they have no one to spend it with. My whole life, I’ve been in the latter category, often deigning to just ignore the holiday and treat it like any other day. Still, …
Welcome to the “What God is Doing in my Life” segment of this blog. For about the past month, I have been feeling slightly distracted. It was not like something big happened; rather, something inside my spirit was distracted, not at peace, not focused as it should be on God. I was aware of it, …