Key Truths - Page 17

Hazy image of a person exiting a dark, windowless room, through a wide-open door, into a world of light and life

Door of hope

Post published:February 22, 2017
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Mini-post with notable "door of hope" quote from Catherine Marshall.

White cotton boll hanging from a brown stem

Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce

We need to see

Post published:January 30, 2017
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:November 12, 2023

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

Closeup of the head and shoulders of a newborn infant, with his eyes closed, his left hand grasping the finger of the nurse laying him on his back, and his cheek resting in her other hand.

Life lesson

Post published:June 27, 2016
Post category:Living Life
Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

Post published:June 11, 2016
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 10, 2024

This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.

A grassy footpath runs beside a quiet lake. Tall trees stand at the water's edge. A green pasture lies beyond the lake.

Psalm 23: Song of rest

Post published:June 6, 2016
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:March 14, 2024

I hadn't previously thought it. But suddenly I knew: Psalm 23 is a song of rest – a song David started, but anyone can sing.

Stunning cloud formation: A towering fireball of a cloud looks to be riding atop a flattened black storm cloud, over land and sea.

God who rides to help you

Post published:May 30, 2016
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Minipost: Be blessed to know this God, who rides across the heavens to help you.

Path disappearing into woods, with this text: "So in the quietness they ready themselves. Together and alone Listening to the hush that is God They hear when it's time. Then they set out."

Lingering at a crossroads

Post published:November 9, 2015
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Minipost. Encouragement sent to me from an artist friend. It begins: "Not everyone who lingers at a crossroads hesitates in indecision."

The quiet path through a lovely wooded area behind my neighborhood, where I walked so many days during the events I describe in this post.

Return to my rest

Post published:March 19, 2015
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest My Story
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

How could I write about rest, in a season where rest seemed to have permanently fled?

Frightened kitten, cowering on wood chips and peeking out from under fronds of green foliage

God who sees me

Post published:February 16, 2015
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 12, 2024

Mini-post. When you think you're hidden, be blessed to know: You're not.

Forgive us

Post published:October 27, 2014
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Review of "Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith" - a book that offers compelling histories of some of the church's greatest shortcomings, along with heartfelt confessions and reasons for hope.