Sometimes, an epiphany will not let me go. This one presented itself to me in 2011, arriving with such force that I wrote it into a book.

Since then, it has washed over me time and again. Each time, I’ve felt the wonder anew.

So I turned it into a blog post in 2013, and reposted the post in 2016. And now, I’ve written a full-length article on the subject, which was accepted and published by Rebecca Davis at heresthejoy.com. Thank you, Rebecca!

This insight has to do with blessings. And it builds on a premise that may sound familiar to my readers by now:

So very much that is God does not look as we in the US evangelical church have thought.

Here, once again, is the epiphany that won’t let me go. And here’s a link to the new, full article: Blessings are not sweet little things

We’ve thought of blessings as sweet little things.

They’re not.

The blessings of the Lord flow from the white-hot radiance of his glory.

They enlarge our human spirit, setting it ablaze.

They enlarge our capacity to know and honor him,
to become who we are in him
and, from that place of identity and intimacy, to join him
in bringing his ever-increasing kingdom from heaven into the earth.

The blessings of the Lord enlarge our capacity to carry his glory.¹

Be blessed!

• The blessing of the Lord
• The blessing of mourning
• The blessing of rest
• The Elijah Blessing: An Undivided Heart
• The Esther Blessing: Grace to Reign in Life

1. Quoted from We Confess! The Civil War, the South and the Church, by Deborah Brunt, © 2011. ↩︎