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You Are A Story: And You Have The Right To Tell It

There is that quote, “Show me your friends and I will show you your future.” It’s also true, show me your friends and I will show you the depth of healing you’ll achieve.

You Are Not Too Damaged. You Are Not Broken Beyond Repair: God Is Enough!

I hear it and read it all the time. But mostly I see it: people who have barricaded themselves inside walls built by trauma, lies, fear. It doesn’t mater who built these walls. What matters is that the walls are still standing. And sometimes I think we actually repair these walls around us. We reinforceContinueContinue reading “You Are Not Too Damaged. You Are Not Broken Beyond Repair: God Is Enough!”

The Body of Christ Needs Women. Women Who Go Forth and Go Out.

And if it is true that when one part suffers all the parts suffer, then our words and our actions and treatments ought to be slung over our shoulders with all the respect of a an honorable weight…to be carried inside the walls of The Church, up onto its platforms, and out of our lips, God help us. Like a solider knows the sacredness of self-sacrifice and duty and this is why he must carry himself so. Because a weight is not the same as a burden.

I Collect Dead, Dying Things. I Collect Brokenness.

I found this coin when I was 10 years old. I was camping about an hour east of Seattle, deep in the mountains, and as I walked barefoot through the camp sites I suddenly felt something underneath my feet that seemed out of place. I looked down to see a square coin, and couldn’t believeContinueContinue reading “I Collect Dead, Dying Things. I Collect Brokenness.”

Christ Is Building His Kingdom Inside of Broken Vessels

We live in a world overcome with images. But mostly, we carry these images inside of us, always comparing, because searching for an identity is the core of what it means to be human. Brennan Manning said, “The gospel is absurd unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purposeContinueContinue reading “Christ Is Building His Kingdom Inside of Broken Vessels”

You Are Called To Stand Up, Even If You Are Standing Alone

If God has called you to it. Do it. Do it alone. Do it afraid. Do it even if your family disagrees. Do it even if it terrifies you. Because impossible things happen because God makes them possible. What are you waiting for? A sign from the heavens? That ache inside you in sign enough.ContinueContinue reading “You Are Called To Stand Up, Even If You Are Standing Alone”

The Goal Isn’t “Don’t Be Like Them”…The Goal is “Be Holy”

Isn’t this what we just do? We watch a screaming crowd, cameras capturing the hate and the screams and the white paper signs filled with angry words and we think, I will never be like that. We watch parents demean their children, hit them, abandon them and we think, never. We read stories and biographies and historiesContinueContinue reading “The Goal Isn’t “Don’t Be Like Them”…The Goal is “Be Holy””

How Understanding Your Eternal Value Allows You to Free Yourself From Abuse

There is a cost for every choice. And what you sacrifice or willingly offer up either wounds your soul or else repairs it. Because you are not just flesh and bone and blood pumping through veins. You are spirit. You are soul. You are deeply and irrevocably eternal. If you are going to heal somethingContinueContinue reading “How Understanding Your Eternal Value Allows You to Free Yourself From Abuse”

Still He Stays: A Response to Fathers Day

I have heard the voices say, there is no love for you. And long have I leaned into those lies, and soaked in the evil of all those words. Words. They matter so much. God spoke words and created a universe. God spoke words and redeemed humanity. And all the broken things are words…words thatContinueContinue reading “Still He Stays: A Response to Fathers Day”

How God Redeems Our Broken Childhoods

Lean in and listen close. God can and wants to redeem your broken childhood. I spent the better part of my life living in fear, shame, self doubt, and neglect. From the outside, everything seemed pretty ok. But when the doors were shut and the curtains closed, life was absolute hell. I didn’t know itContinueContinue reading “How God Redeems Our Broken Childhoods”