The loudest demands are not always the most important demands. We have to use our ‘sacred no’ in order to do what is best. Or, as my friend Tara says, “say no to things so you can find your ‘hell, yeah!’”
Tag Archives | Bible
Spring is coming – Alison Luna
The darkness that threatens to overtake me? The clouds that seem to suffocate? I am getting close to him. Over and over I am told that God is near to the brokenhearted, He saves the crushed in spirit.
Always we begin again
Why do I like the one type of beginning, but not the other? Why have I always loved ‘back to school’ but hate the new beginnings that relapses bring?
The answer is this: one feels progressive, the other regressive. One is macro, the other micro. One is linear, the other cyclical.
What to pray when the situation is hopeless (Jesus in Gethsemane)
When we are overwhelmed by the contemplation of our own suffering, when the future looks black, we can know that we have a Saviour who experienced those same feelings. There is no shame in feeling that we just cannot cope. Some things are too big to bear alone.
Picturing Suffering (Velvet Ashes)
What do you believe about God and suffering?
I’m answering that exact question today, explaining my ‘theology of suffering’.
Jesus had blisters (a short video on the incarnation)
This is my four-minute video on the mystery of the incarnation, and how that influences our attitudes to our own bodies
The God who brings storms
We sing our songs, and we think of a gentle mist, but the way that God’s righteousness comes is through a storm, through the sharp smacking of water and air onto a shocked and complacent earth.
My friend is hurting – what do I say? {my post for Relevant}
How do you respond to a friend who’s hurting? I have a post-graduate qualification in counseling, I have been a paid Christian minister for over a decade, I have also experienced suffering. But nothing in my experience or training is as useful as this simple verse:…
