Isn’t it funny how it’s only when we let go of our need for something that we truly find what we’re looking for? In the way of life modeled by Jesus of Nazareth, releasing equals receiving. A backwards rule for an upside-down Kingdom. Surrender your desires and you’ll find the life that your heart longs …
Continue reading Surrender: Finding Peace in the Kingdom of Contradiction (part 1.5)
In the beginning chapters of First Corinthians we find Paul elaborating to the church in Corinth about how God uses the foolish things to shame the wise so that it will not be man’s power or wisdom that receives credit, but God alone. Because how, except with God, could something foolish create something spectacular? I …
Continue reading Unqualified: Living in the Kingdom of Contradiction (part 1)
What is beauty? Is there an answer to that question, or is it—as the saying goes—truly in the eye of the beholder? I think beauty is a lot like truth: relative, if you look at it a certain way. But when it all comes down to it not one of us can elude the reality …
Jesus is quite the radical guy, if you haven’t noticed. As I’ve been reading the gospels lately, I’ve been seeing these stories in ways I haven’t really before. This time I’m trying to actually imagine Jesus saying those words and telling those parables packed with meaning, and heck—walking on those stormy waters. Because it’s nothing …
Continue reading Uncharted Waters: Leaving What’s Comfortable to Embrace Adventure
I’m sitting in a room full of people Each one, lost A room full of little worlds that mean the world And who have come at great cost Just to know that the dreams they dream are worth something That there are other worlds out there beyond their own minds And souls who suffer equally …
An artist is a person who feels deeply. Each piece that they produce is a part of themselves, an expression of discovery. We cannot separate our art from ourselves as the artist because it is in a sense an extension of ourselves. And yet we can separate our identity from the opinions thrown upon our …
Once upon a time a man named Jesus told his friends that in order to find their lives they must first lose them. That to follow him, one must first deny himself and pick up his cross. For those who seek to preserve their lives will lose them, but those who lose their lives for …
Fashioned in the heart of a creator are intricate details of his or her masterpiece, each idiosyncrasy designed for a very specific purpose. Some elements take more time than others to develop, and some will never see the light of day and yet they make up the very fibers of the creation that would be …
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“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.”- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty We don’t like to wait for things. We live in an increasingly fast-paced world where what we want or need is often available right at the tips of our fingers. But what if the best things in life are worth waiting for? Do …
The walls around my heart are crumbling in the light of this initiation Into a place where all I see is your face Because There is a different sort of wall around this space And it separates me from that location where I misplaced my identity, Finding false varieties inside of things that were never …
Denica McCall 