Live from a place of rest
Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from Return to Your Rest. It begins, "Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest ..."
Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from Return to Your Rest. It begins, "Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest ..."
Mini-post with notable "door of hope" quote from Catherine Marshall.
Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church
You want to know Christ, to love him and serve him with an undivided heart. But in seeking to follow him, you've been blindsided by violent spiritual assault. Worse yet, it's come from a place you would not have dreamed.
Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.
This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.
I hadn't previously thought it. But suddenly I knew: Psalm 23 is a song of rest – a song David started, but anyone can sing.
Minipost: Be blessed to know this God, who rides across the heavens to help you.
Minipost. Encouragement sent to me from an artist friend. It begins: "Not everyone who lingers at a crossroads hesitates in indecision."
How could I write about rest, in a season where rest seemed to have permanently fled?
Mini-post. When you think you're hidden, be blessed to know: You're not.
Review of "Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith" - a book that offers compelling histories of some of the church's greatest shortcomings, along with heartfelt confessions and reasons for hope.