Sometimes the greatest relief comes not from having all our questions answered, but from being given a little more room to breathe. There are weeks when the whole world feels unsteady. This has been one of them. So much in the wider world feels fragile at the moment, with economies shaking, nations on edge, and…
Tag: Mercy
A Tender Legacy
We may never see the full answer to our prayers, but their blessings may reach far beyond our lifetime. As part of a six-week course I am doing, I was asked to take a test to discover which emotions most strongly drive me. When the results came back, they stopped me in my tracks. The…
Love Like That
The deepest response to extraordinary love is to let it transform our lives. The cross is a hard thing to look at. It is rough wood. Cruel wood. A place of suffering and shame, where human beings were nailed and left to die. There is nothing gentle about it. Nothing soft. Nothing in the scene…
The Day I Trembled
Being given more time to live is a gift that includes both the joy and the sorrow. I stood at the gates of eternity. Not metaphorically. Not in some dreamy, poetic sense. I stood there, suspended between breath and no breath, between the beating heart and silence. Between earth… and heaven. The cord of life…
Life Defining Moments
We are not promised tomorrow, but while we are still here, every ordinary day is sacred, those we love are worth holding close, and every unfinished page is a gift from God. There are some moments in life that do not simply live in our memory. They mark us. They sear themselves into us so…