What do you do when it seems as though the Lord is silent? When you’ve prayed and prayed, pouring your heart out to God, and there is no answer? Do you question whether He is really there, and truly hears? I know I have before. Our mid-week Bible study has been studying the life of…
Month: October 2020
The Next Right Thing
I’m never going to recommend one use Disney as a trusted source for parenting wisdom. There’s really not a whole lot of parenting on display there, and what little is shown is inept, ineffective, and out of touch. Surely we can find better parenting resources than Disney. I’m also not going to tout Disney as…
Fear
This might be an unusual opinion, but I’m beginning to think that fear is a gift from God. Maybe like trials or suffering it’s more something that He uses for His own purposes in our sanctification, but sometimes it feels more like a gift. Of course, that might depend on the object of our fear,…
Thoughts Provoked By Gaudy Night
I originally started this several months ago. The themes have lingered still, and it’s been an encouragement to me, actually, to revisit, review, and refine my more immediate response. I recently binged a bit on Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night, at least as much as I’m able to this time of year, and although I’ve finished…