Life with God

Becoming Whole

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Confusion. sadness. There’s so much pain. I ask: will things ever get better again? How did we get here?  What caused this fuss? Some wounds were unwillingly inflicted upon us. Other wounds were our own poor choices. And now we suffer the inevitable consequences. Oh to be able to do […]

Life with God

Breaking Point

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I’m almost to the point of breaking tears are rising from deep within the outward façade crumbling, no more faking there is deep remorse over past sin How much longer can I hold it all together? I’ve never been good at pretending. How much longer until things get better? These […]

Life with God

Refining 2

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The fire gets hotter, impurities rise The harder the wind blows, the easier it is to see what was well-built by the wise, and what was not. Surrender is never easy. It’s only when I’m asked to give something up that I realize how attached I really was to it […]

Life with God

Refining 1

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The fire is hot coals underneath glow red and this is NOT how I imagined life, in my head As temperature rises impurities float toward the top…surprises from deep in the moat Filth, as it reaches the uppermost parts is scraped; it teaches from old ways to depart The scraping, […]