The God of the “Very Good”
When we’re up close with nature, the beauty is undeniable. But it can be harder to see the beauty that comes from being created by God when it comes to people.
Leeann Younger
June 2, 2021
When we’re up close with nature, the beauty is undeniable. But it can be harder to see the beauty that comes from being created by God when it comes to people.
We continue to press in and press on, even when we do not get it right.
“So tending to hope requires breath—not only the monitoring of our own breathing in self-care, but the continual breath of the Holy Spirit.”
Thirteen chapters before Jesus is betrayed, Luke tells us, “As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out
Prayer, if authentic, requires honesty. And honesty before God requires being honest with myself.
The angel tells him to do something critically important: Eat and take a nap. It’s almost ridiculous, isn’t it?
Saturated—the word means soaked, drenched, unable to hold any more hope because we are entirely filled with it.
I believe Dilly reached through her confusion and touched her soul’s bedrock, her own true self.
During an ad-break for a streaming TV drama, a question occurred to me—one of those questions I felt dumb for not knowing the answer to: Why do pharmaceuticals always have two names?
How deep does your own fear run when you think of letting go of something you might be holding too tightly?
