lamenting the Pain

the Loss

honoring the Unspoken

the Confusion

speaking my Peace to the Past

unable to bring it Home

but it ain't home without It

Babysitter for an adult

Does God intend to "confirm" our directions in life


Or does God affirm our decisions about direction in life


Consider the coincidences of your day, the omens that speak


Do they guide you? Do they confirm? Do they lead you?


Or are they like the signs of weather - sometimes yes it will rain


Sometimes it looks as if it will but we don't see a drop fall


An omen is ominous, yet not always indicative - how do we listen?


We listen as the farmer listens to the weatherman and the weather.


Nothing is for sure but all is possible, so live in tension


At the same time, let go of "confirmations" and turn to "affirmations"


This brings you and I from "certainty" to "assurance"


Ask yourself, which provides more security and then ask yourself,


"Which do you really want?"

To be faithful and unambitious

Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star:
Hast thou no scar?

Hast thou no wound?
Yet, I was wounded by the archers, spent.
Leaned me against the tree to die, and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed me, I swooned:
Hast thou no wound?

No wound? No Scar?
Yes, as the master shall the servant be,
And pierced are the feet that follow Me;
But thine are whole. Can he have followed far
Who has no wound? No Scar?

-Amy Carmichael