Woman on mountaintop, above the clouds. She stands with her feet toward the camera, but her face turned away into the wind, as she looks out on the clouds behind and below her.

I will change your name

I will change your name! From wounded, outcast, lonely, afraid. To Confidence, Joyfulness, Overcomer, Faithfulness, Friend and Seeker of God.

Two large, antique globes stand side by side, each upheld by a heavy, walnut, four-footed frame. One globe depicts the earth. The other depicts a heavenly world.
Two globes in the Musee Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France, depict two worlds – the earth and the heavens.

Living in two worlds, seeing the unseen

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Jesus died and rose again so we can live in two worlds at the same time – the physical one, and the unseen one we see by the Spirit.

Brown sea, brown rocks, brown sky - but light is breaking through.

Light is breaking through

In the very act of seeing what is brown, murky and decidedly unsafe, there’s movement. There’s life. And the light is breaking through.

Interesting door handle on a dark door, opening to a hazy, but very green, world

And the future starts now

Even in suffering, even in exile, may you find growing within you: A life energetic and blazing with holiness, conceived by God himself. Life healed and whole. Laughter and singing. Genuine faith proved genuine. Living hope. One-anothering love. A future that starts now.

Frightened kitten, cowering on wood chips and peeking out from under fronds of green foliage

God who sees me

Mini-post. When you feel invisible - when you want to hide - be blessed to know: God sees me.

Gray striped kitten, sitting on tree branch, head lifted, eyes looking up

God who lifts up my head

Again and again, the “God who …” phrases in Scripture reveal God’s works. As we respond to our Lord deep within, receiving what he communicates Spirit-to-spirit, those phrases also reveal…