Bless it And Leave it
However we talk about it, the point is that our spiritual growth and maturity will always require us to leave behind our previous ways of thinking about God, self, and others. Then, we’ll move on to different forms that will take shape in us through a process of trial and error. Much like a teenager moving into young adulthood, when we operate with the default settings there will always be hiccups and abrasions.
At The Edge
Edges are the places where we are pushed to either recognize that we are out of our depth and our strength is dismantled or they are places where we stare into an unknown with little understanding of how to go forward.
What I have come to learn, however, is that no matter how I grit my teeth against the edges I experience in life the edges are necessary. Why?
Good Cancer and Where Growth Really Happens
I am frail. There are cancers that aren’t the good kind in this walking world; a world that is both temporary and miraculous.
And that is the journey - that’s where growth really happens. Knowing these things and their little deaths is what makes us more a contemporary than simply dust.
There is where we grow. That is how we heal.
challenges of a stolen faith.
The issue at hand is that faith can’t be borrowed. true, faith is met and discovered in the voices of saints ahead of us and innocents behind. it is heard in the raspy, quivering voice of the preacher long standing in the same oak pulpit, flush with the love of God but wrestling with the length of life.