Tag Archive | Love
More on Love
I thought I’d share the devotional I read today in Grace for Each Moment. I think it goes well with my recent post Faith, Hope, and Love. True love is not easily fathomed. Yet, of all the human emotions it is the most profound. We tend to reduce love to mushy sentimentality, thus diminishing it […]
Faith, Hope, and Love
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 It’s easy to become desensitized to the term “love”. What the Lord taught me in this is very close to my heart. After a combination of: nervous breakdown, depression, panic attacks, isolation, unhealthy relationships, family wounds, church […]
Mental Illness and Compassion
If you know someone with a mental illness, compassion will go a long way! I remember when one of my roommates and I were both sick with a nasty respiratory bug. We took turns hacking up our lungs and blowing our noses, and then passing out on couches in the living room from exhaustion. A huge […]
Salt of the Earth
I look at my boss. She’s in the middle of a divorce. Pain. I look at the dishwasher struggling with depression. Pain. I look at the sous chef who stayed up all night fighting with his girlfriend. Pain. Then there’s the server I met recently whose best friend committed suicide, is getting teased at school, […]
Healthy Relationships
Control. It’s a word many of us bristle at. It has caused much suffering. Yet so often we get upset when the control is not ours to have-over projects, schedules, and unfortunately, people (even if we don’t realize it). It seeps into the way people treat one another and I’m sure all of us have faced both […]
Reconciliation
I was skimming through a book a friend gave me that really helped me understand God’s grace-God’s Astounding Opinion of You, by Ralph Harris. I highly recommend it!! It reminded me of just how IMPORTANT it is that Christians are solid in their identity in Jesus Christ. We have a real enemy out there and […]
Treasure
Have you ever thought you were beyond help? Caused too much trouble? That God sees you as you are-a complete mess-and passes over you to more worthy people? I’ve been reminded lately of the miracle God has done in my life, even when others gave up on me and I gave up on myself. I remember […]
Colorblind
Have you ever had that moment where it hits you that you NEVER expected yourself to be where you actually are at in life? That happened to me recently. Here are some things I have learned the past year: GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY KNOWS NO BOUNDS. I struggled for a long time to believe that He […]
Volcanoes and Diamonds 