Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given
Henri Nouwen pointed out that the gospel writers used four words to describe what Jesus did with the bread. He took it. He blessed it. He broke it. He gave it. Nouwen believed these four movements describe not just a miracle but a life. Yours.
God Is Not Late
The hardest thing about waiting is not the length of it. It is the silence that comes with it — the feeling that the waiting means something about you, or about whether God is still there.
The Contract You Never Signed
Most of us were never handed the terms explicitly. We absorbed them slowly, in Sunday school and sermon illustrations and the quiet pressure of being around people who seemed to have it together. The contract felt real. The problem is that God never signed it.
The Skin Does Not Grow Back the Same
A doctor once told me that when the body heals a deep wound, it does not replace the original tissue. It produces something new. That observation changed the way I understand what God is doing in a wounded life.
The Room You Could Not Walk Back Into
For some believers, the hardest thing is not losing faith in God — it is losing faith in the place where they learned to find him. This is not an argument against the church. It is a word of grace for the long road back.
