JESUS – WRITING – PHOTOGRAPHY
To Mom(s): We have seen the way you take care of everyone around you and not be shown the same care in return. We have seen the way you don’t complain when things are hard for you because you want to be strong for your children. We have seen the way you are constantly available…
We are really good at being afraid. We are really good at believing the worst and expecting the worst and living as if the worst is always around the next corner. We cram ourselves into boxes of “reasonable expectation” and disguise cynicism for realistic beliefs—we despise hope because nothing seems sure enough and resign ourselves…
They took Him. They took Him in the night. In silence. In secrecy. In total darkness. Total darkness hovered over and around Him. Total darkness sneered its ugly head in its too-soon belief that it had won. The final word—finally had by Hell’s hand and Rebellion’s Evil Persuasion. The lashing whip, the dragging cross, the…
I was looking back through my journal from over the past couple of months, and I found this line that I had written after reading Psalm 111 through 118–it simply said this: Gratitude changes the narrative. Obviously, as I was writing that a month ago, I wasn’t thinking of how unbelievably quickly the world would…
***I have not written in a couple of weeks, for many reasons, but there is mainly one: I have been rather afraid and caught up in what is going on in the world. I have allowed myself to be so caught up in the world that I have been unable to think very clearly or…
