Struggling for Contentment

I really hope that the title of my blog hasn’t been misleading.  I don’t always love my life.  It’s many times a choice inspite of my emotional reality as much as anything.  It’s a journey to find contentment riddled with gradual progress and lots of failure.  For me, I’m deep in a season of struggling for that [...]

Singular Perspective: Blue Christmases

I’ve always loved Christmas.  Everything about it.  Any season that comes with it’s own soundtrack is bound to appeal to someone like me.  I also love that it comes with it’s own scents, like mulled cider, fir trees and cookies baking.  But even though I’m not a strict traditionalist, I love the intentionality of celebration that [...]

Confronted by God’s Love

As a result of preparing for and teaching our weekly Bible Study, I find my heart heavy this afternoon.  Our current series of lessons is on love.  What a great subject.  Last  week we talked about how God loves us completely and for always.  We can’t make him love us more or less.  His love [...]