Tag: jesus

blessing the darkness

Published on by Dawn Marie9 Comments

Some people might say that we find God only when we need Him. Simple words, but true. It’s like looking for the light switch in a dark room. No one goes searching for it until the sunlight has gone. Similarly, darkness can impel our search for God.

I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night – but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.

Psalm 139:11-12

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last survivor pulled from the wreckage after the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. Genelle tells the story about flirting with faith but choosing to live without it. Then, on September 11, her world fell apart and she found herself in complete darkness, buried alive under a mountain of rubble.

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Character costs

Published on by Dawn Marie11 Comments

I don’t believe God wastes anything. He knows that even the most painful, bewildering circumstances can produce a life of beauty and grace if we allow them to be molded by his creative hands. What matters to him is not so much the circumstance itself but what He intends to do with it.

These past 2 months He pulled me away from this beloved writing space to use my time differently. Baby squishes, remodeling projects, story times with tiny friends, and quantitive discerning prayer.

No time has been wasted!

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…mission completed

Published on by Dawn Marie6 Comments

Heavens to Betsy, it’s mid-July already!

The June flags have been stored away and I can easily say that, so far this summer, I have barely had a chance to catch my breath with all the goings-on in my tiny space of this world!

Great joys, amidst deep sorrows.

Mountain top moments combined with deep valleys traveled through.

And yet, there has been immense abiding grace.

Through everything – I have learned (and in some ways have re-learned,) a number of things about love and perhaps, something about myself. It (all of it) really comes down to the decision we all must make: To love or not to love. Yes, as cliche as it sounds, that is the ultimate question.

God is love and commands His children to live in love, grow in love, mature in love, share in love, and show to the world the difference that love in living can make.

One of my favorite working definitions of love is… LOVE is an action directed to another person that is motivated by our relationship to Jesus Christ and is given freely without a personal reward in mind!

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