In her book, Uninvited, Lysa TerKeurst offers a paraphrase of a popular story in the Gospels: Jesus calming the storms on the fishing boat. The word used to describe the disciples’ disposition is “terrified.” In TerKeurst’s paraphrase, perhaps the most profound piece is her breakdown of that word: tarasso, which means to “set in motion what needs to remain still.” (Uninvited, [...]
Category: ponderings
letting the light shine
Maybe it is because the sun has stayed stuck behind clouds for so long; because the warmer days stick around only long enough to make us miss them. Maybe that's the reason. But I've felt locked up and shut down, a little small and a lot hidden. I feel like someone took a key to [...]