Who would’ve thought that His arms are found by walking the road of pain, loneliness, fear, disillusionment, suffering, and loss? It’s where you would least expect to find Him, yet He is found in brokenness- when tears of humble repentance roll down your cheeks. In those moments, you are able to see how incapable you…
Tag: death
Bible Study (day 2)
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. Hebrews 2:10 (ESV) Jesus, for whom and by whom all things exist, was made perfect through suffering the cross. God found it fitting to find…
Holy Week.
Cherishing the events of Jesus’s last days on earth. Jesus’s entire life was an extraordinary life. Yet, this week holds a holy importance for Christians everywhere as they remember the last week of His life on earth. Last Sunday marked the celebration of Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The way He…
Hidden.
A story of what takes place in the heart. The sun shines warmly through the trees. It is so quiet yet so foreign. It seems like forever ago when she used to take walks and God walked close beside her. The moments were filled with holy echoes of eternity. In those days, the quiet used…
Escaping the trap of the self.
If you lose your life you will find it. We live in an age of self-indulgence. People everywhere are obsessed with how to make themselves happy. We are conditioned by the world around us to want more and more things in the hopes of finally being fulfilled. We are also promised the power to do…
An unexpected resurrection.
I found life in the midst of death. I treasure Easter but my experience seems to vary from one year to another. It’s good to celebrate Christ’s resurrection but what do you do when life doesn’t resemble the triumph of such a sacred day? Sometimes, everything in life resembles a cemetery rather than an empty…