Journeying Home Together
Wow. Balance. This is hard stuff, y’all. When I first started writing out this post, I wanted to list all of the stuff on my mind today. I wanted to whine and gripe and dump my entire to-do list at your feet, as though I were saying, “SEE? This list is HUGE! This is the biggest list of to-do’s in the WORLD! You think you can beat that? NO WAY!”
Do not be afraid, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9) That’s a promise we can cling to, friends. Follow me!
A few years ago, as I started a new job, I had to go out of town for training. I wasn’t the only new employee; the other girl starting a parallel position to mine had to travel to Atlanta for training as well. While I didn’t know her, it seemed logical that we carpool. We arranged to ride together to Atlanta. What I found, though, was that what began as
Driving down the road this morning, I saw a license plate from a county I’d never heard of prior to my freshman year of college. My friend Sarah was from Dallas; not knowing there was a tiny town in northwest Georgia by that name, I assumed she had come to Berry College all the way from Texas. At the time, I was four hours from home, and I was amazed
I love movies. I love the feeling of getting lost in a story that’s nothing like my own story line. There’s something in my anxious personality that relishes any chance I get to become engrossed in something far from my reality. Someone else’s story sometimes gives just the escape from my own that my soul needs. Sometimes, though, the story of the movie I’m watching is so far from my
March 27, 2013 – This is an older post, published exactly one year ago. Since then, I have been on two more trips to Belize and have left more and more pieces of myself there. The same issues are weighing on my mind and my heart today, and in my homesickness for Belize, my heavy heart has no words other than these. To my new friends who are visiting today,
Then He said to then all, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24) There it is. The core of our faith and the verse that we hear over and over and over. That verse we know by
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work…Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. (1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 27) Recently, I’ve begun thinking about my life
As Jesus walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he
Sometimes when I’m watching my daughter, I get a glimpse of some other Jennifer…an older Jennifer, who is more developed and mature and grown. It is like a glimpse into the future, or like I am peeking into the window of something I’m not supposed to see yet. Or maybe like I’ve discovered a fantastic secret hidden in a closet somewhere, only to have the door close before I can
