Posts Tagged ‘god's presence’
When We Have No Answers, Only Presence
I run down the stairs to our living room after bedtime with hot, angry tears caught in the back of my throat, purposely stepping on all of the forbidden creaky spots—a personal act of defiance. I barge into the room where my husband Paddy is alone and planted in the middle of the floor. We…
Read MoreThe Days Ahead: A Reminder for the Changing of Seasons
I have tasted and seen that the Lord is good. So when I see a trial an unexpected struggle an unfamiliar season a potentially hard thing anything new anything I’m not used to headed my way and uncomfortably close, when I see it and become tempted to hoard manna I remember: The Bread of life…
Read MoreGod’s Abundance in Anxiety
The mattress sags beside me as my husband sits down, wrapping an arm around my shoulder. My puffy face reveals an evening spent crying, but by now there are no tears left. My hands are balled in my lap, and the evidence of my anxiety is the half-moon indentations from my nails against my palms.…
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