I will admit—I do not watch football. I tend to be more interested in spending a free Sunday afternoon creating art and crafting worlds than cheering on my city’s team. As much as I feel like a traitor at times, I do see what these victories are doing to my city, and there’s this hope …
A New Year=A New Way of Seeing and Living
I wrote the following a few weeks ago. It was a journal entry of sorts, a way to express my frustrations over the things that stifle my creativity, or just my joy in general. Go ahead and give it a read, then at the end I want to leave you not with resolutions for the …
The Father’s Son
Hope sings a song in the night like an announcement of new life Prose flows from lips that recite the wonder of that glorious night Bright stars declare that He is here, a joy to behold and a peace beyond compare He is here, he is here, among us now! Flesh and blood, yet He …
Confessions of an Artist
I am realizing something about myself. That I strive to feel alive and a part of this world. That at times I am not content because no one sees me. Why am I not content with knowing that the One who made me and cares for me the most always sees me? I am an …
The Way We See
One of the many cool things about God is that He can always take the ordinary and seemingly boring tasks and activities and draw the life out of them. I mean, He is the God of life! He came to bring life, He came to show us how to live, and not just survive, but …
Jesus-an Encounter
I see him walking towards me. Well, really, only his feet, for my eyes are downcast. But I know who he is. Will he approve of me? I wonder. Will he validate all my hard work, make it all worth it? Will he scorn me for my weakness, my lack of discipline, my selfishness? He …
The Circle (Some Fun Thoughts about Relationships)
I was sitting in a coffee shop today and I noticed something quite adorable. There was a group of moms who each had a baby, all around the same age, sitting in sort of a circle together. Someone laid down a blanket on the floor in the middle of the group and they all sat …
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Waiting
Sometimes we just need to worship in the waiting. Sometimes that’s all we need. To adore our God and to believe, in confident joy, that He has mind-blowing plans that will put ours to shame. Life is made up of a lot of waiting. We’re always in search of the next thing, planning, hoping for …
The Beauty in Us All
People are so special to God. And He sees the beauty, always.Which is incredible.See, it’s so easy to see the ugly, the scars, the brokenness and the mistakes in ourselves and in others. But God ONLY sees the beauty. He sees what is hardest for us to see. His eyes break beyond the outer shell …
There is a Life
There is a life tempting and seemingly teasing meTo find in its gushing streams an infinite destinyIt winks at me and dares me to believe things that my mind can’t graspChallenges my heart to let down its walls and barriersBeckons my art to let go of its expectations and limitations There is this life that smiles …
Denica McCall 