Two phrases. One that completely contradicts the other, yet with God, both make perfect sense and compliment each other.
Be Still.
Move Forward.
We all want to move on from whatever hurt us. To get past the memories and the pain and set our sites on a new future, leaving the past behind us.
Read More"Never underestimate your pain, for nothing beautiful ever comes with ease. Only a true creator and sovereign God can transform your greatest hurt into His greatest masterpiece."
Read MoreI could feel them everywhere. Hands. Hands that were pressing on me with all of their might, trying to crush me from the outside in. It was as if I could feel the individual finger tips digging into my skin. It didn't matter where I went or how deeply I breathed, I still felt like I was being crushed. Though the morning had started out fine, something shifted and gradually everything grew dark and the pressure got worse. I felt like I was being shoved into a cage; into a prison.
Read MoreThe sand has been everywhere this week. The dryness of the desert has threatened to suffocate me in a way I haven't felt in a while. I felt I was ready to move on; like I had come to a place of being able to forgive and keep walking. I felt like I had reached the top of a hill and could see that a future, but then I hit the valley again, and the valley made me angry.
Read MoreYour hurt is there to break your heart for what breaks God's. He allows it to come to make you whole and strong in Him. It's the process of pruning; the process of God stripping away; a process of cutting back the things that are drawing our attention away from Christ. And those cuts... the deep ones that take you down to the root, down to your knees... they hurt the worst.
Read MoreI remember the morning very well. I woke up to a little one climbing into my bed, snuggling up next to me, and the whispering of these three little words, “Where is daddy?” In that moment, it all came flooding back.
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