The Mystery of Faith
“Go that way! Towards the sun.” I always wondered about faith. Evangelicals say that you have to choose to have it. Calvinists say that...
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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Jan 1, 2015
- 4 min
The New Year’s Resolution That Will Actually Make Your Life Better
The other day I read an article which advised that the key to keeping this year’s resolutions was to set up specific targets. Like “I...
- Oct 28, 2014
- 1 min
On Treading Water
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Once upon a time a dastardly villian took a girl out to sea and left her there in the water, in...
- Apr 30, 2014
- 2 min
Some Afternoon Encouragement
If you are feeling poor, worn out, full of grief, weak, despairing at the state of the world, hungry for change, wishing you could make...
- Mar 25, 2014
- 2 min
Your Goodness Isn’t Filthy Rags
If there’s one word which describes my experience of 2014 so far, it’s “inadequate”. I have felt utterly inadequate to the challenges of...
- Jan 19, 2014
- 4 min
For When You Can’t Function
Now here’s a subject I know a bit about – not being able to function. By which I mean not being able to engage in normal activities like...
- Jan 23, 2013
- 2 min
Throwing Pennies at God
You know the story of the widow’s mite? How Jesus said this widow throwing her last two pennies into the collection box was more...
- Dec 18, 2012
- 4 min
Do You Treat God Like Old Aunt Myrtle?
“Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” Luke 18:17 When ever I have hear...
- May 20, 2012
- 5 min
Sometimes You Just Have To Be Your Own Cheerleader!
Dearest Rebecca, Hi! I’ve heard that you’ve been having a hard time lately so I thought you could use some encouragement. I know that...
- Jan 25, 2012
- 5 min
The Right Way to Stone Those You Love
Missy Piggy Tattoo by Jamie Sapp. Inspired by my career making performance, no doubt. I’m not sure exactly what came over me, but one...
- Dec 30, 2011
- 2 min
Thinking Makes It So
I picked up this quote back in my senior year in high school while reading Hamlet for class. When I got to college, I wrote it on a...
- Dec 29, 2011
- 5 min
A New Year’s Resolution for the Overwhelmed, Forgetful and Easily Distracted
quasi-ex-husband) would pull out a piece of paper and write “Trotter Family Resolutions” across the top. So we could “pull them out at...
- Dec 22, 2011
- 2 min
Be a candle
Loneliness can be a deep, vast sea to those who have no one waiting for them on shore. Open your heart to someone you know is floating in...
- Dec 21, 2011
- 4 min
Prayers that get answered
"Please, please, please!" Prayer used to confuse me. Or I should say, prayers asking for specific outcomes used to confuse me. Like,...
- Dec 20, 2011
- 3 min
Do You Treat God Like Old Aunt Myrtle?
When ever I have hear this verse taught the point is pretty much the same: we should have a child like trust. What does that even mean? ...
- Dec 18, 2011
- 3 min
Would you run?
Last winter as things were really unravelling with the qxh (quasi-ex husband), I was, of course, very upset with him. I was considering...
- Dec 17, 2011
- 2 min
When God Cleans
"I don't wanna take a bath. I like my stink just fine!" For some time a couple of years ago I was blessed to have a spiritual director...
- Dec 1, 2011
- 2 min
Be Wrong . . . All the Time
What I now see as unacceptable are all of the strategies we use to keep ourselves from having to face our own errors. I have found that...
- Dec 1, 2011
- 2 min
Some Feelings Just Have to Be Felt
Some years ago, I became committed to walking through rather than trying to hold down my negative emotions. Life is hard enough and if...
- Nov 30, 2011
- 1 min
It’s nothing personal
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