salvation – My Beautiful Ashes

Beautiful Mess

Everything we do, is filtered through the experiences we have throughout our lives – whether good or bad. Being alive guarantees each of us a mix of positive or painful, happy or sad, gain, or loss. Intentional or accidental experiences mix together and embody who we are. It’s a road that begins at our birth, […]

Hope for the Hurting

I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say “God only gives you what you can handle.” Seriously – I’d have a hefty savings account. It’s a comment commonly meant to provide comfort during difficult times. But is it? Comforting? I never found it so. Let me begin by saying I […]

When Hope and Fear Collide

Fear and hope can be equally powerful. Hope has the power to make us stay longer, and believe stronger. It lets us dream, inspires us to run, and feeds our vision. It is our assurance of what we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about […]