Even If

My heart is so heavy. Oh Lord, I don’t understand the terrible finality of death. I don’t understand Your will. Why do some live and others don’t? Why are some prayers answered while others aren’t? Some healed; others not. Sorrow and anguish tear me apart. I’m sinking Lord. Now I see what a terrible evil…

The Set of the Sail

“We cannot know God by thinking alone, but we can never know Him very well without a lot of hard thinking.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer Have you ever met a writer who made you think? I’m not just talking about letting your imagination soar but rather, someone whose words really made you sit up and…

The Balm

Pain is a terrible tormentor. Sometimes when I’m in acute physical pain because of this illness, I’m filled with all kinds of unhappy thoughts – there is anger, mixed with fear and self-pity, and the outpouring of that unholy mess are faithless, bitter, sinful words. As I was tossing and turning and trying to find…