Beneath the juniper…
Anger · Choice · Fear · Lies · Image of God · Mind of Christ · Prayer · Projection · Resurrection · Suffering · Transformation · Trauma · Truth
No accountability
Victims of sexual abuse tell their stories, one after the other, to absolutely no avail. What do we do with this fact?
We take it to God, and the earth begins to shake.
Shame is deadly
Just as shame weighed heavily on me, shame is weighing on Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, and its effects will continue to be destructive.
We don’t matter?
We confuse humility with self-deprecation. Humility is an awareness of what’s true, and what’s true is this: each of us is a mighty creature of God!
Choose to see
Just as there is nothing more heartbreaking than a choice to ignore God, there is nothing more challenging and transformative than a choice to see God.
Keep Jesus on the cross
Jesus came, in part, to show us what He can do for us and in us as we suffer.
A hurting God
Redemption is ongoing because God loves and is profoundly active right here, on the sacred ground of our lives.
Looking for God is vital
God never says no. God never leaves us without something.
Expect, find, and use that something.
Where is God?
My suffering and the suffering of so many others leaves us all asking, and rightly so, where is God in this?
I know where.
Sacred ground?!
There is treasure we can receive because of what God can do within us in the midst of suffering.
Open the door
God seems to show up for others in grand ways! Where’s my grand way? And as we nurse our wounds and review all those times “God didn’t show up,” we’re not realizing just how shut our doors are.