I walk a weird line. It’s a line between secret pride and acute feelings of inadequacy. A line between reveling in the accolades of others and succumbing to the voices inside of me that hiss about my unworthiness, my unlovability, and my hopeless pursuit of wholeness. It’s a line that feels like the edge of [...]
Tag Archives: Bible
holding everything together
Today, I have been wondering about God’s will for me. His plan for today and tomorrow and the rest of my time on this earth. It isn’t a new curiosity or question, but every season of life brings new context and new angles to consider. I’m being reminded of how impatient I can be. For [...]
Where is the Balance?
Yesterday, I chose to be stubborn. I’ve been feeling hurt and sad and alone and abandoned and raw and indignant and helpless. (Need me to add any more adjectives? I’m guessing you have a sense of how I’ve been feeling.) This season I’m in with my relationship to my wife seems to spin from one [...]
Emotions
It is pretty amazing what a range of emotions I’m capable of experiencing in a relatively brief space of time. When I woke this morning I had a heavy feeling of sadness. The sadness that creeps out of my fear that the thing I’m hoping for will never come to be and that my attempts [...]
F is for Faithfulness (Counting My Blessings 6/26)
Sometimes it is easy to believe in what you can’t see. Other times, it seems impossible. For the past six months or so, I’ve been walking through one of the most shadow-filled valleys of my life. The narrative I’d expected to play out was arrested by the choices of someone who I expected would love [...]
Never Lost From You
Here’s where I am today. Unfinished, but hopeful. The chorus lyrics about bruised reeds and smoldering fires comes from Isaiah 42:3. NEVER LOST FROM YOU ©2012 David Cosand I’m broken A shattered array Jagged pieces That You’re putting into place I don’t know Where all of me has gone but You do I’m torn My [...]
Your Most Basic Act of Worship
A good friend of mine recently gave me a copy of a book that has meant a lot to him. He knows that I’m in the process of journeying through some difficult realities at the moment and thought that the book would be a source of encouragement for me. He was definitely correct. The following [...]
Follow Me? Okay.
