Delighting in the Divine
Yes to freedom, yes to play and yes to celebrating the moment!
Delighting in the Divine
Yes to freedom, yes to play and yes to celebrating the moment!
All tagged prayer
I love words. I love how they wrap up a feeling and spring-board an idea. I love how words can paint the tumultuous storms of life in lightning-strike clarity. I love how emotions can be soothed by words, like the calm of an unhurried afternoon tea in the garden where the gentle breeze blows through the bushes; or emotions can be hair-raised and roller-coastered with violent passion that makes us bold and pushy...
Could God possibly desire brokenness above seeming fixed-ness?
Could God possibly prefer me broken and weak and at the end of me over held-together-all-by-myself me, because that is where He is? ...
It is my thirty-second birthday this week. That comes as a surprise to me because I have been thinking I am thirty-two for several months now. It might be something to do with the Peruvian habit of always referring to the age you are going to be next birthday when you are asked how old you are...
Do you ever have times when you know you are processing something in your mind but you can’t quite grasp what? There has been an unsettling in my spirit about the new year that I haven’t been able to put my finger on but has manifested in a holding back.
When I think about my life and our ministry in Peru, I want to see God do everything He wants to do through us. But present in my heart is also a fear and resistance which says something like: ...
We desire to do great things for God and we crave a community to do it with. Unfortunately, when we work alongside others we soon discover that there are people who have mixed agendas, others who are unkind, others who are passive, others who got out the wrong side of the bed this morning. And those people are us!
So Anna Robinson started this discussion over on her blog about family prayers and talking about what they are currently doing as a family, and linked up to MissionalMumma too. I encourage you to have a quick read of both the blogs, because they both have some great ideas and perspectives on family prayers.
Family prayers are going to look and feel different with every family and that is great...
Often we think our emotions are the enemy.
As I was sitting last night with a friend, we talked about emotions and how they have so much influence on her life. She made a comment about just needing to ignore her emotions and look at the logic of a situation.
But emotions can be incredibly useful if we know their proper role in our lives...
Sometimes I look at a bad situation and I start praying.
And that is the right response...
