There’s a Latin phrase that I randomly happen to love. Dum Spiro Spero. It happens to be South Carolina’s state motto and its English translation? While I Breathe, I Hope. I mean…just…wow, friends. If any phrase was going to be…
The Way in the Wilderness
For several years now, the term wilderness has been a word that I have felt a particular kinship with, though I don’t entirely know why. As someone who feels particularly at home in the mountains, maybe it has something to…
I Believe
It’s not something that I do terribly often, but something that I enjoy doing from time to time is to go back and read through my journal. I do it sometimes here with blog posts but as someone who constantly…
A Time for Everything
Well, here we are friends. Over 40 days into self-isolation and social distancing and I both can’t believe it’s been that long and yet it also feels like it’s flown by somewhat. The days are long but the weeks/months feel…
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
When I think back to the start of this Lenten season, I can’t help but smile of all that we didn’t yet know. At the end of February when Lent began, we didn’t yet know the ways in which COVID-19…
Distancing & Desperation
What a strange world we have found ourselves living in these days, friends. Words like social distancing and quarantine are shaping up to be some of the defining themes of this year and I, like many of you, are still…
The Art of Giving Up
This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and the start of the season of Lent in the churches that follow a liturgical calendar. Five years ago, I published a post with this same title around this idea of giving something up for…
His Love Endures
“The Lord’s kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed. The Lord can always be trusted to show mercy each morning” – Lamentations 3:22-23 At the end of last year, when everyone was talking…
Seen and Known
“So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, ‘You are a God of seeing,’ for she said, ‘Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” – Genesis 16:13 Of all the names of God,…
Fear and Truth
As I look back and reflect on the path that this blog has taken, I can’t help but smile at little at the randomness of it all. Admittedly, I’m probably not the best blogger because of that. I guess you…
Hopeful Expectation
“Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed – that exhilarating finish in and with God – he could…
Remember God
We say it every year, but where has the time gone?? Here we are on the downward slope to 2019 and in a lot of ways it feels like 2018 only just got started. 2018 has been a big year…