Categories
Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

What if?

Several years ago, in the upheaval of an unexpected move to a different country, I’m struggling.

Questions speak loud. Wake me in the night. 

What if it’s the wrong place? 
What if it doesn’t work?
What if we can’t get permission to stay?
What if…? 

Doubts about the future linger. Rising from underlying fear. In a long season of unanswered questions.

Unexpected move. What if…? Image: Tommaso Pecchioli, Unsplash
Categories
Devotional

All we cannot see

The new year approaches.
And we’re looking sideways at the year that was. 

2020.
Planned calendar undone.
Change unexpected.
Grief unwanted.

Up close and personal reminders
of all we do not know. 
All we cannot see. 

All we cannot see. Image by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.
Categories
Devotional

Trust in the Lord

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart….” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

All? Yes, all. Not the part. But the whole.

“Search me, O God and know my heart…” (Psalm 139:23-24)  And He does. Revealing hidden chambers. Locked tight. Corners where I hold fast to self-reliance. Secrets. Pride. Fear.

Can I trust Him with even these?  Yes.

He will make your paths straight. Image by Thomas WIllmott, Unsplash.