Here in His Presence

Take it.  Take it all.  I have so often cried to God.  Hands elevated.  To Heaven. Throwing it all away. “I don’t need it anyway.  I don’t need any of it….If I have you,” I used to say.   Emphatically.  Irrationally.  Words, emotionally thrown around, not considering their significance. But, then today.  I stand here.  Prayer answered.  […]

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What King Kong & Your Faith Have in Common

“You are in the hand of God,” I hear Him say. And I see myself laying prostrate. Alone.  Like Ann Darrow.  In the hand of King Kong.  There.  Above. Gripping tight. Holding on.  Eyes shut.  Filled with uncertainty in this darkness of night.  Yet, I know that there….In the palm of the Living God….Is the safest place to […]

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When Jesus Passes By You

I stand in a circle over the accused.  Holding what I think is redemption in my hand.  Sharp edges.  Mine has some.  But then…..so does my own soul. And I see the guilty.  There on the ground.  Grasping for dirt to cloth himself in. Incapable to run.  This time. And I marvel at the fact that […]

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What if?

Faith.  The faith fight.  The topic of my life.  Yet, faith is believing in something we can’t see. But, what if…. What we see….with spiritual eyes….has. Is. Has always been….more real than what we see with the flesh? What if the temporal is more like a box we’re trapped in? …..And we mourn for and ache […]

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Walking On Water When The Storms of Life Surround You

In the quiet.  Out here.  Where nothing can be heard.  But the downpour of the fallen. The crackling and bolt of pain found deep in the storm now. And I close my eyes to see His face.  For the tranquil waters of yesterdays have passed……And no open sky lies before me.  Only clouds.  Clouds of my […]

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In The Arms of My Lord, on Humbled Knees

Aging knees give no regard to hard wood floors. Blowing away dust of yesterday left to unfold….. Nestling into that place where whispers waver and the voice of thunder shouts out His name. And it is here. In this place…..that I finally let go. Here.  Alone. Where questions and reason float from my soul….. Making their […]

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