It’s amazing how comfortable the edge can feel when you know who you are. When all former needs, expectations, and wounds are left behind. When you’ve instead chosen to embrace the new creation inside of you, the one that is whole and entirely secure no matter what loss once tried to take from you. When …
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The Best Gift
In John chapters 14 to 16, Jesus takes an opportunity to offer comfort to his closest followers in the face of his impending betrayal, arrest and death. He gives them many gifts in these passages—the sort of gifts that will keep them sane and bring them courage in the middle of the hardest times in …
The God Who Identifies With Humanity
The God of the universe identifies with you and I. If you doubt this statement, allow me to explicate. God understands what it’s like to have longings and desires, even unmet desires. There is a certain ache that accompanies desire, because until it is answered the longing remains, often telling us there is something that …