Dethroning the “god” of Productivity

“Remember that productivity is not your god.” Sigh. This past weekend, I read the words of this insightful blog post on Chatting at the Sky, and it hit me square between the eyes. Productivity is not my god…

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 […]

Your Heart: It Matters

Did you know that your heart matters? Probably more than you realize? Simply managing your behavior is not enough to address the true issues of your heart. You have to face the contents within if you will ever find healing and freedom. And God, who is Healer and “tries the feeling and the heart,” is […]

I Feel… (a free-flowing prose)

Like I’m fighting a shadow, a shadow of a life that was never meant to be, an expectation of an ideal never meant to be realized. I’m tired of me, Lord. I don’t want this kind of existence in these spaces, in these places that are still so undefined, redefined by the time and the […]

I Will

Written after reflecting on “Difficulties Concerning the Will” from Hannah Whitall Smith’s The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, particularly the following excerpts: For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions that if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test we […]