Just like that, black clouds rolled in and I stepped into the Valley of the Shadow - and just like that, everything on my list of New Year goals seemed like long-ago dreams from a distant, carefree life.I feel stuck here in the dark, cold winter, and it's hard to patiently wait for more days of dark and cold to pass before the world brightens and blooms again.
Read MoreIt is a fork in the road, and whichever direction you choose, the cost is high: Follow Him to the right and you must deny yourself, but all that you lose will be counted back as tremendous gain. Diverge to the left, and you may gain all the world now only to render yourself ultimately forfeit.
Read MoreReconciliation with God through Jesus Christ isn't a bandaid. It doesn't just cover up our wounds so we can pretend they never happened.No, reconciliation with God is a cure. Beginning from the very foundation of our disease - having exchanged our sin nature and its Eden-founded fissure for something new and whole - God is ready to heal us fully for victory and abundant life.
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a Pacific Northwest-native writer, photographer, and Bible nerd with a lot of big ideas and a never-ending sense of homesick. Here, in words and in images, I process my inmost thoughts and invite you along on my lifelong pursuit of truth + beauty - ever inspired and sustained by the changeless nature of my beautiful God, and by the hope He offers in His Story.
