Coram Deo
"I say to you, Blessed is he who exposes Himself to an existence never brought under mastery, who does not transcend, but rather abandons himself to my ever-transcending grace. Blessed are not the enlightened whose every question has been answered and who are delighted with their own sublime insight, the mature and ripe ones whose one remaining action is to fall from the tree. Blessed, rather,

Maturing into Obedience
I learned a valuable lesson last week, one I practice daily in hopes of it becoming a permanent change in behavior and not just a remembered event.Maturity will grow into and display itself through obedience; obedience is not always practiced from a place of maturity. If I truly am His, abandoned, dead, transformed then all I have grown into must fall under His authority. My next breath belongs

A word from my Hosea
I had a battle with the enemy Sunday morning. I found myself feeling alone as I prepared to teach a lesson on God's unfailing love. My prior week included a few days of isolation sprinkled with a few attempts to reach out but nothing authentic; I was hiding. The gift I'd receive to truly and intimately receive the Lord suddenly gelt too close and I began to turn it off. Before I knew it, Sunday

Out of the kitchen...at His feet
It has been almost a year since I've blogged the evidence of God's grace in my fumbling; its not that it hasn't continued but the rate in which God has called me close leaves little room for pause/writing. I am a growing soul in His ripe soil!Anything that blocks our hearts from freedom to respond to Him breaks His heart; it does set well with Him. All the Lord desires is our response. He