Reconciling My Heart-book (Part 4): Keeping Short Accounts

This is the last post of this 4-part series… In my time alone with God, my heart-book showed a large deficit that seemed like it would never be resolved. At first, I thought I’d just have to get used to the discrepancy, ignore the mistakes I made, and figure out the best way to live […]

Reconciling My Heart-book (Part 3): A Light in the Dark Night

This is the third post in my 4-part series on the heart. “…that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” -Paul, A Letter to the Philippians (3:7-11) Although my […]

Surrendering to Hope: A Visit to the Karen

How do you tell a story? A story that’s probably already been told by dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands? One that largely remains hidden from most? With just one voice and a few photographs? This is my attempt to tell a story. Really, it is a compilation of stories likely told and shown before, but […]

Reconciling My Heart-book (Part 2): Alone with God

This is a continuation of my part 1 entry… I started examining my heart-book account before the Lord, and its activity had more challenges than I anticipated. My heart-book’s balance showed several discrepancies and didn’t seem to match the balance God was revealing. I wasn’t quite sure how I was so off. I mean, I […]

Reconciling My Heart-book (Part 1): 27 Cents

God just used my checkbook to teach me quite a lesson. I had been reconciling my checkbook with the bank’s online statements when I noticed several discrepancies. It had been a while since I had tallied everything up – even the most “type A” of us get lazy about these things at points – and I […]