Learning to live after loss blog
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Two Paths
When I was a freshman in high school, my sister was in the hospital. Helping care for her felt like second nature as I stayed at her bedside to comfort her. It was then that I fell in love with nursing. This turned out to be the right path.
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God is Home
In Psalm 90, Moses teaches the next generation and generations to come that God’s abiding Glory is the covenant heritage to His children. He is our dwelling place. As we delight in Him and He in us, wherever God is dwelling is our HOME.
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A Place Called Home
No matter how long I’ve been gone, Home is the place I always want to come back to. It’s the place I am completely myself and know I am still loved. I experience a taste of Home now, but ultimately what I’m looking for can’t be found here.
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Entering the Sanctuary
I can hardly articulate what it means to enter the presence of a Holy God. Some have suggested that God is like their daddy and they feel like they can crawl up in His lap. That image seems irreverent to me. And yet, Christ came and changed everything!
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That’s Not Fair
I see wicked people all around me not being held accountable for the evil that emanates from their pores. They are successful beyond belief without a care in the world. Their followers chant how great they are. God, that’s not fair! Why don’t You do something?
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When is Vengeance Okay
I have never experienced war, but I imagine living through it would impact my perspective on vengeance. I recall my grandmother’s bitterness toward those who killed her loved ones. Would she be justified in wishing ill on whole nations, asking God to give them what was coming to them?
