WILD SPIRITUALITY

This idea is so life giving to me. I find myself communing with God more often and in more places…From John Eldridge – Restoration Year… God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. GENESIS 1:31 Much of your story is ultimately spiritual. The tests and...

Original glory bestowed

If I am honest, I have a harder time accepting my “glory” than my sinfulness.  This reading from John Eldridge’s Restoration Year, encourages me to believe and accept that I have a glory… In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown and a glorious...

No soul was meant to live like this

I am learning the art of being still and knowing that He is God. This is a challenge in our culture! John Eldridge captures it well in this reading from Get Your Life Back… I think it was Archibald Hart who pointed out that because we are so accustomed to moving pedal...

Living in Narrative (The Larger Story)

The world offers us a role in a “smaller story”, while God has something much better for us in His “larger story”… From, The Sacred Romance (John Eldridge) Life is not a list of propositions, it is a series of dramatic scenes. As Eugene Peterson said, “We live in...

UNIQUE TO YOU (Fathering)

This is real.  God can and will “Father” you no matter what your age.  He will heal the broken places… UNIQUE TO YOU (Fathering) from John Eldridge – Restoration Year. Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. PSALM 17:8 The...

Paradise Lost

I daily battle the energy to take matters into my own hands, to write myself a better part in the story.  Even when I have succeeded doing that in the earthly sense, I am left empty and unfulfilled.  I am learning to be who God created me to be, trusting that it is...