Complementary Colors: Divine Faithfulness and Human Surrender

Often unexpected circumstances take us where we do not want to go. Yet the resulting blessings of acceptance form a beautiful bouquet of complimentary colors—a mixture of divine faithfulness and human surrender. Recently, I wrestled with acceptance of a situation that was causing me consternation; I was challenged to trust God during a directional change …

Vintage Purse Strings

A small, worn travel suitcase with the silver strings of a vintage purse draped over the side appeared in my dream as if a photo shoot. The image captivated me—camera shot hugged up close and angled towards a vanishing point. I rolled over in the dark and groggily sketched a crude reproduction onto journal pages. …

Trust

“You will know the right thing to do when the time is right to do it.” I think God doles out trust one moment at a time, because as much as I try to generate my own, grace must kiss my trembling lips before they utter, “I believe.” And aren’t we all kind of like blind …

Purse Strings of Trust

What if trust was like purse strings one could loosen until the leathery pouch of belief lay open to receive divine-gold coins? What if those gold coins clinked as they landed on the inside, the velvety vulnerability we humans call the heart? And in the clinking, we could absorb confidence in a Creator who cares …