Take a moment and reflect on a circumstance in your life that is crumbling all around you. This crumbling is beyond your control, like a sand castle being battered by the rising tide. You’ve tried reassembling the pieces and putting them into their desired shape, but the sand continues to slip through your fingers as the castle dissolves and washes away into the ocean’s abyss.
Our Battered Sand Castles
Take a moment and reflect on a circumstance in your life that is crumbling all around you. This crumbling is beyond your control, like a sand castle being battered by the rising tide. You’ve tried reassembling the pieces and putting them into their desired shape, but the sand continues to slip through your fingers as the castle dissolves and washes away into the ocean’s abyss.
The ‘Shelter in the Storm’ Launch Team
Hi everyone, my new book ‘Shelter in the Storm: 40 Psalms on God’s Faithfulness’ releases on September 1st and I’m hoping you’ll join the launch team to help get the message into more people’s hands and hearts. A supportive launch team is the catalyst for a chain reaction of people discovering the book, and Lord willing, being shaped and transformed by it as they spend devotional time with God.
Ep. 92: Ken Wytsma on Chronic Pain, Compassion Fatigue, and a Theology of Suffering
Ken Wytsma discusses his journey from being a high-achieving leader to one slowed down by chronic illness and how this has made him relook at his identity. Throughout this conversation, Ken shares a lot of wisdom gained from doing pastoral and justice work for decades, including how to go at a sustainable pace.
Psalm 42 Devotional – Panting for water that isn’t there
essens here, doesn’t it? We know this is the direction of the psalmist because he tells us in verse 3 where he has in fact been getting his water from: his tears. His tears have been his food day and night, with God nowhere in sight. God’s absence is noticeable even to those around him as people taunt him, asking him where his God is, in the midst of his pain.
Psalm 40 Devotional – Victory & Suffering, Hand in Hand
Psalm 40 shows us that we can confidently approach God in our time of need, and that we can continue to worship and rejoice in him, even when our circumstances would indicate otherwise. It also sets a clear pattern that God doesn’t always tie things up in a perfect, red bow at the end. It doesn’t promise that “all who want to take my life be put to shame and confusion.” That prayer is prayed, but as far as we know, those attempted murderers are still on the prowl. What it does promise is we can go to God as our refuge and strength in the midst of this.