When Hope is Dashed

Why don’t I have what I want and need? If God loves me, why doesn’t He help me? Has He forgotten about me? I’ve lost hope, and I feel like it’s been dashed. Like I’ve been dashed with a wrecking ball of disappointment.

Replying to Epicurus

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
-Epicurus

Angel at Trader Joe’s

Covid-19 Social Distancing Day 5 I called my mom yesterday to check in. We’ve been texting but I wanted to hear her voice and have a longer conversation because, well, everyone still needs her mom. Even when you’re 41. And maybe she needed me. But probably not as much. (Call your mom if she’s still on… Continue reading Angel at Trader Joe’s

Free Indeed

Whether you’re trapped by anxiety, addiction, abuse, shame, or besetting sin, hear me now: you CAN be free for good. The One who made the stars allowed His Son to be killed and resurrected to buy your freedom, if you’ll have it. If you’ll live it.   But what is this IF, and upon what… Continue reading Free Indeed

New Wineskins

Are you praying for change, hoping for something new, asking for a turn-around? Let me ask you this: could the delay be you? Are you even ready for that breakthrough? Could you contain if if it happened? In 3 out of 4 Gospels, we see Jesus telling the parable of the wineskins (Matthew 9:17, Mark… Continue reading New Wineskins