I read the book of Hebrews through this morning in THE MESSAGE, a translation by the legendary and wise, brilliant pastor and author Eugene Peterson. All these thoughts come directly from that reading. When I used Peterson’s words, I tried to give “credit” but this is completely my interpretation of his translation. Don’t blame him for my ignorance […]
{What it means to FEAR HIM}
Fear has always chased me and won. It clamors at me through perfectionism and anxiety to the point that my reflex response to life is to fear it. I’m certain it is the crux of my depression. Even so, it was some kind of miraculous act of God that brought me Tom to share […]
Why “For Women” is not “For Me”
Why I don’t like “women’s” ministry, seminars & conferences specifically for women, or special Bibles and studies written only for women. It is not that I’m against women (or men) gathering together as a tribe, but I have other, deeper concerns. First of all, fundamentally it comes out of this notion that men and women […]
Something God has slowly wrestled away from me one finger at a time …
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau For many years now Tom and I […]
I am Not Ashamed
At the end before I quit completely, I was a messy drunk because by then I had to drink a lot to be messed up. More than I want to admit I had occasions of being a mess, stumbling to bed. And many, many Sundays I sat through church with the […]
