Tag Archives: Hope

No Second Rate Sons

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, [...]

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Like Light From Star

Slow and strong, like light from stars is the way you’ve formed my soul; in cold, wide world where the whispers are that tangle men with Gods we built an eternal city and in it, golden homes with ruby streets for the gracious dreams that testimonies serve. Alone, where so few go willing to dust [...]

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Carry me, for I am weak.

How amazing it is that our world can change so drastically in the space of an hour, all thanks to a short conversation. Yea. I know, Matt Kearney has a new song that touches on that same idea, but that has nothing to do with this. Anyway, I just got off the phone with my [...]

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I am awake today.

These last several weeks have been, without me realize it until only a few days ago, a slow but sure decline from the glorious promise that God has set before each of those whom He calls. His call for each of us is joy in hope (Romans 5:2), sanctification (John 17:19), peace (Philippians 4:7), love [...]

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Small Evening

Sometimes I am smaller and oh so much harder to love and sometimes I am stronger than I ever could have hoped. But more often, more often I am nothing when something is all I want to be. I come close to being and run away afraid because they’ll all hate the real me. What [...]

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