I grew up around words like grace and hospitality and sanctification and justification and love. If you asked me about them, I could rattle off a dictionary definition and quote a Bible verse or two. I learned them long before I actually understood them, long before they shaped the way I saw God and myself …
“You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.” Psalm 65:8 ESV I suspect that as we continue to edge out of the pandemic and its aftermath, more and more of us will be able to look back and identify our 2020 refrain. Lamentations 3:22-23 was mine: “his mercies …
Every so often, my Photos app reminds me of what I was doing on this day in other years. Recently, it showed a picture of me hanging out on the beach with my family four years ago. I remember that trip: I was getting ready to go to college. I spent the week talking to …
A few weeks ago, I wrote about when God doesn’t give us what we want. This week, I’m writing about when He does. When I stepped into my apartment almost a month ago, I cried. My kitchen drawers were already filled, my couch already set against the wall, my bookshelves already stacked with books. Earlier …
My new apartment gets sun-soaked around four in the afternoon every day, which makes the plants by the window very happy. I’m settling in here. I’ve made meals, done laundry, and mopped the floors, and last Sunday night, I hung paintings on the walls. Above my workspace, I put a print that reminds me to …
