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At six years old, my mind was filled with thoughts that challenged my being – thus began my writing journey.
You can imagine how mortified I felt when my parents found my writings in my little black journal. They read every detail of my heart…and unfortunately, disciplined me for the things that were on my heart. After that, I neglected my journal for years because I was afraid someone other than my parents would find my journal and know the depths of my heart. However, as time went on, I moved pass the incident. The writings in my journals morphed into poems, then into song lyrics, and now this.
Writing was always easy for me because it was really the only way I was able to express and comprehend my own feelings.
Over the years, I’ve archived my journals into a large file box so if I ever wanted to, I could relive the moments that made me the person I am today. Twenty years later and here I am. Still writing away my thoughts, but instead…on a digital journal (blog). Rather than being mortified of people discovering my heart on paper, I am now at peace with sharing all the intricate things God has placed on my heart. Why? Because I believe that though our relationship with God may be personal…it is not meant to be private.
It isn’t always easy — sometimes I have blogs sitting in my “draft” folder for months because my heart isn’t ready to be exposed to the world. But I know, in my suffering; in my joy; in my pursuit towards Christ, they are meant to be voiced to testify the goodness of God in my life.
God’s Shade in Our Discomfort
When I reread Jonah, I uncovered how 4:6, became more than words on a page—it was real in my life. “God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort.” It’s one thing to read that God Word, but it’s another thing entirely to live through His faithfulness found in the Word of God.
A Dedication…
How about you? What have you thought or said when God called your child to Kingdom work? What steps did you take—or fail to take—to raise your child in the faith? How often have we used our lips to dedicate our children to God, but in our hearts, withheld them?
The Power of Prayer
I reflect on my life and see how many red seas have been split, how many miracles have taken place, and how God has (and many times did not) intervene for my greater good through prayers. I encourage you to think of the many times God intervened (or didn’t) in your life; you will find it tracing back to a prayer you have made or someone else made on your behalf.
Jesus, My Friend
Hagar calls him the “God of Seeing,” reflecting the profound friendship that Jesus embodies. This is the kind of friendship that Jesus has, one that would make him selflessly leave his throne to comfort someone like Hagar, a slave, a gentile, a nobody.
God’s Purpose for Mothers
We all have a family origin story, trials and tribulations of some sort, and people who have shaped who we are for the needs that God knew our children would require. God gave us the strength (and courage) we required before we knew we needed it.
Your Identity
The heart that sinned from Adam and Eve continues to be passed down from generation to generation since the fall in the Garden of Eden. How do we know this? In Genesis 6, Cain murders Abel. Humanity naturally continues into this downward spiral of learned sin–in other words generational sin.