God, so often do I forget the gift that is my own life. So tangled up am I in daydreams, in places where I believe you are more present. This place I am now is not what I would have asked for, and it's so much easier (and safer and more fulfilling) to fantasize about [...]
Category: prayer
listening
My problem is that I think too much. Thoughts getting discombobulated and overwhelming as I sift through streams of information, trying to piece everything together in my mind to create the most astute, most inspiring, most clear-headed perspective. There are ideas and facts and opinions, various ways of looking at things and as they all [...]
to the lonely
I am lonely. It feels almost wrong somehow to confess this. I wrestle with my feelings of loneliness in the wake of people telling me "You have Jesus! How could you be lonely?" I pray over my loneliness. I do not run from it. I no longer set it upon a shelf and stare at [...]