Love is beautiful, but it’s not clean. It frees the heart from unforgiveness and bitterness, while not even slightly delivering it from pain and heartache. Freedom of forgiving love does not mean going scot-free and living untouched. Love is mangled and wounded … Read more
The jealousy that once left my arguments speechless and my striving powerless has not changed, has not dwindled, has not diminished in the smallest degree. The cure of my sickness in my youth is the same cure decades later: to … Read more
We sat there on the floor facing one another in wonder, just taking each other in, it all hitting us in waves, simultaneously. When he finally spoke, it was only to confirm what our hearts and eyes had already been … Read more
Love covers. Where questions linger without answer and old misunderstandings remain cross-armed, love forges ahead with a covering, unthreatened by the gaps beneath (1 Pet. 4:8). Love does not wait for the seeing eye-to-eye or the final resolution before it … Read more
He has caused my soul to taste of Him. This is the wonder that I can forget along the way—the wonder that He came to remind me of today. Perhaps the accusation that most rises in our hearts—in my own … Read more
My heart in my throat, I prayed, crying out to the Lord for some of the precious ones that I love and the suffocating circumstances surrounding them. And as I prayed, I heard Him say, It’s okay to mourn. And … Read more
My eight-year-old sits at the piano bench in the nearby room. She has no idea the impact she has on me as she lifts her sweetest voice in spontaneous song to the Lord. I find myself arrested in an involuntary … Read more