Maybe it is more important that I be totally committed to what I believe than always confident in what I believe. Doubts, when they come, make it hard to be totally confident in beliefs. Commitment means the doubts don’t matter.
Don’t let it make you afraid.Don’t let it make you greedy, selfish, or stingy.Don’t let it make you self-centered.Don’t let it make you obsessed.Don’t let it make you cynical.Don’t let it make you point the finger of blame.Don’t let it make you isolated.Don’t let it destroy your joy, your faith, your hope, or your love.
Lord please grant that more of my life be driven by an overwhelming sense of joyful “want to” and not by a weighty sense of forced “ought to”.
I have dreamed of a time when my heart is nestled safely in Faith’s home. Where there is not a degree of space for doubt to live nor opportunity for its conniving hand to come knocking. In my vision, I would stay in this home for a lifetime, my feet graced by a floor becoming
Her surgery went well. The tumor was benign. We had prayed for that. We had hoped for that. We even dared to expect that. But we knew it could have been otherwise, so we thank God for an answer to prayer and the result we had been hoping for. I don’t always get what I want. I don’t