Key Truths - Page 17

From Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara staring into each other's eyes

How do I tell you?

Post published:October 12, 2017
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:August 1, 2024

Shame that’s exposed hurts like hell. But only – only – when brought out into the light can shame be dealt with and sent away.

Tiny white flowers with yellow stamens, growing up from a dead log in a backwoods place

God chooses the foolish

Post published:June 20, 2017
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mark Charles is a prophetic voice to the US church culture. He describes himself this way: “I do not lead any organization nor do I work solely for a specific…

Woman hiker with backpack, standing where the path crests on a cliff, looking down on the huge, barren canyon below

Photo by sara.atkins

God is kind but not soft

Post published:May 12, 2017
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 18, 2024

Mini-post. "God is kind, but he's not soft ..." A notable Bible quote and an image of a courageous woman that encourage me to go with God.

Sketch of brown sparrow nestled in the outline of loving hands

Your grace still amazes me

Post published:March 23, 2017
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 13, 2024

This Phillips, Craig & Dean song has deeply encouraged me in the night

Clusters of purple wine grapes, resting in the vine

courtesy Pavel Jedlicka

Live from a place of rest

Post published:February 28, 2017
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from Return to Your Rest. It begins, "Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest ..."

Hazy image of a person exiting a dark, windowless room, through a wide-open door, into a world of light and life

Door of hope

Post published:February 22, 2017
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Mini-post with notable "door of hope" quote from Catherine Marshall.

White cotton boll hanging from a brown stem

Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce

We need to see

Post published:January 30, 2017
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:November 12, 2023

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

Closeup of the head and shoulders of a newborn infant, with his eyes closed, his left hand grasping the finger of the nurse laying him on his back, and his cheek resting in her other hand.

Life lesson

Post published:June 27, 2016
Post category:Living Life
Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

Post published:June 11, 2016
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 10, 2024

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.

A grassy footpath runs beside a quiet lake. Tall trees stand at the water's edge. A green pasture lies beyond the lake.

Psalm 23: Song of rest

Post published:June 6, 2016
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:March 14, 2024

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.