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Losing Heart

Posted in Confession, Jesus, Repentance, Restoration, Scripture, tagged , , , , , , on October 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been a believer for three days now, this time around.  For almost two days before that, a total agnostic. Thirty-six hours of godlessness.  I didn’t pray.  I didn’t even lift my head.  I didn’t want to hear from God.  I wasn’t even sure He existed.
I was angry and hurt.  Exhausted.  Pissed.  Something was seething [...]

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One Thing

Posted in Confession, Longing on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
-Paul
The suffering that Paul speaks of here is the gap created between desire and satisfaction. Paul was not a sated [...]

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Conversatio Morum

Posted in Confession, Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Grace, Jesus, New Covenant, Prayer, Story on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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All of us have hang-ups when it comes to praying. Sometimes we get tripped up and stumble around for awhile trying to figure out how to pray. Some of us at various times wonder if we should pray. At other times, we know we can, we know we should, [...]

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Treasures of Darkness

Posted in Confession, Counsel, Healing, Love, Morality, Repentance, tagged , , , , , on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As I write this, I am in a café, sitting in the corner, trying hard not to make a scene. I am weeping, suppressing groans and cries and wails so that I won’t be asked to leave. I came to read and study for a class I have in a few hours. Instead, I am [...]

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Revealed

Posted in Confession, Glory, Home, Longing, tagged , , on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Underrepresented. I had sat for some time to find the right word. Everyone else had answered, and so I offered mine last. Looks of confusion and “Hum”s went around the room. I felt it was right, though, and so I stuck with it. We could say nothing more about it. One word, and only one [...]

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I’m Just Me

Posted in Confession, Identity, Love on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit… small. Misunderstood. Grumpy. Irritable. Far from use in the Kingdom. I wrote the following as an exercise some time back when I was in a similar place. I’m posting it now so I can bring it up often in these days of myopia and reread it until the light [...]

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A Confession and a Plea

Posted in Confession, Conversational Intimacy, Prayer, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

There’s a lot that I need to process, to unpack, to bring up into conversation with God. Some of it I already have. Some He has brought up with me. Some I have faced through unavoidable circumstances, reminding me of what Frederick Buechner said about God speaking to us through the daily events of our [...]

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