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Light in the Darkness

Walking through the darkness feels like the weight of a hundred unanswered prayers pressing down. Ever noticed that life marches…
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Spend more time than you want to admit scrolling t

Spend more time than you want to admit scrolling through other people’s pictures and quotes and stories? Yeah, me too. We scroll through life at a pace that tells us we’ve got to do more- and we’ve got to do it faster and better because that girl over there? She’s already got it all together and left us in the dust. Fascination turns to fear, and then it throws in a dose of guilt for good measure. The race to compare your Instagram-worthy life leads straight to despair because I don’t know about you, but my life doesn’t have a Clarendon filter. Is it still worthy? Truth is, God’s just as interested in the mundane, gritty parts of life as He is in the beautiful caption-able moments. In fact, those moments- the grit and grime- it’s where He loves best. He wore muddy sandals, caked with dirt and sand when He climbed that mountain to tell us blessed are those that mourn, and salty tears left tracks on His face as He wept for Lazarus. He calls us worthy of everything He has- the whole of His inheritance as Son of God. And not because we’ve got it all together, just because He loves us. So take your tear-stained face today and tilt it towards the Son, where blessings fall down and bathe it like rain. Pictured: Youngest boy, mud-caked and looking for more joy. Clarendon filter used. #christianmentalhealth
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Fifteen Sundays ago You burst out of the prison of

Fifteen Sundays ago You burst out of the prison of Hell in the quiet stillness of a dark tomb. A dead body hidden behind a heavy stone that became the center of every single thing. You took the very hardest thing, the death of the Son of the Living God, and made it beautiful. If every cell, every molecule and mitochondria in Your Body can thrum it’s way back to life, electrifying Itself back to a beating heart and breathing lungs, then doesn’t that mean our pain, our unspoken grief, our breathless sorrows are headed there too? The sound of that first breath that filled the silence of the tomb echoes down to my own lungs. Timed to the very heartbeat of Your glory. Weary bodies and souls everywhere can rejoice because of a God who breaks His own laws of matter and life and death, all for the simple cause of Love. Do I hold that dear enough? Do I? Because You rose, so will I. You are resurrecting me, too. Because you didn’t remain behind the stone, neither do I have to. We aren’t condemned to remain entombed in our own pain because there is One who knows the tomb well. He’s laid alone in the quiet darkness, feeling its weight. He’s felt His own heart stop and begin again, caught in the space between the terrors of this world and the glory of the next, setting the tune of Resurrection for us all to follow. You always roll the stone away, time after time, doing Your will on earth as You do in heaven. #hopewriterlife
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Whatever the tail end of this week brings, He's se

Whatever the tail end of this week brings, He's seen it and He knows your heart well enough to walk it with you. Sunday morning's where a train-wreck of a week intersects with all the glory and redemption of Resurrection bound up in the love of One God for His people. May you celebrate the making of all things new today. #emotionallyhealthyspirituality #christianmentalhealth #christianencouragement #hopewriterlife #hopewriters #ptsdrecovery #cptsdrecovery #cptsdhealing #traumarecovery #mentalhealthmatters #soulcare

I'm in the new issue of @fathom_mag guys! And boy

I'm in the new issue of @fathom_mag guys! And boy am I in esteemed company. You can follow the link in my bio to read about messy church relationships and the spiritual practice of forgiveness. Be sure to check out the other articles too, I'm in seriously stellar company.

I'm so excited to have a piece featured at @incour

I'm so excited to have a piece featured at @incourage today! "Our little guy came to us when he was two years old. We’d been parents four times over at that point, long accustomed to the wonder of watching a child grow up. But when we welcomed this child through adoption, bringing with him a story that’s only his to tell, we found something new to marvel at." Head over to their blog to check out the full piece: https://incourage.me/?p=215314

Spoken Word. A little spoken word for your day. Fo

Spoken Word. A little spoken word for your day. Follow the link in bio for a FREE, beautifully designed printable of the words.

Father's Day can be so tender for those of us who’ve experienced abuse and neglect. Maybe the voice that was supposed to soothe and the hands that were supposed to protect did very different things. Maybe you’ve never known a father’s smitten delight in his daughter. Truth is, when things go as they’re supposed to, we learn how to be loved by God from our fathers. Their gentleness, joy, tender love, and patient correction lay the groundwork for a relationship with the Father of all. Earthly fathers, even in all their frailty, are supposed to reflect God’s love so that we are able to recognize it when we’re older. And when we don’t have that, well it’s hard to relate to a loving God when you don’t know you’re loveable. But, know what? It’s really all true. He loves us even more than we hope He does. And I just know, way down in the depths, He’s a little extra tender with His wounded daughters. You are a daughter and you have a good Father. May you celebrate Him. #emotionallyhealthyspirituality
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