Wrestling with God

Destination Jesus

The familiar ping of the phone alerted me to a new message. A hurting friend and I had been sharing our thoughts and discussing the razor-edged struggles of the hard in her life. A loved one had said things….done things. She wanted to know–could the relationship...
Wrestling with God

Not Enough Rocks?

A heart-rending scene in the movie Forrest Gump elicits uncomfortable emotions every time I revisit the movie. Why? Because I relate to Jenny—the young woman who returns to her family home only to be reminded of the pain and destructive secrets experienced in a place...
Wrestling with God

An Uncommon God

We are, if we have chosen the good part, sitters at the feet of Jesus, just as Saul of Tarsus sat at the feet of Gamaliel; Christ is to us our great Instructor …  –Charles Spurgeon   An uncommon God, He lived as a common man. Exchanging the beauty of...
Through the Eyes of Hope

Through the Eyes of Hope

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.                                                     I well remember them and my soul is downcast within me.                                                          Yet this I call to mind and...