Harvest Update Book Release April 21, 2018 Volume 3, Issue 1 This book is a must read. Desert of Solitude really helped me understand some things in life that I struggled with. It’s […]
Harvest Update – Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace Release
Set Fire to the Rain…
Set Fire to the Rain is a therapeutic letter featured in Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace. It was written three years after the addressee, Peewee, died. The letter represents the tiers and nuances of love and forgiveness that entangles and confuses interactions between an abuser and the abused.
Love Anyway: Things I Learned During My Harvest
Love Anyway began as a deep **sigh** in response to wrong treatment. It developed into a list of personal affirmations to choose to love even while rejecting and battling hateful behavior.
Verdant Valley ҉ Faith Challenges
Verdant Valley ҉ Faith Challenges is the title of the first section of Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace. This is a sampling from the section.
Introduction: Wonder-Filled Living
The introduction to Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace outlines how wonderful humans are even during our lowest to ordinary moments. The African Augustine of Hippo, remembered as Saint Augustine, pondered that people travel the world to experience wonder yet pass by themselves without wondering at all. We become used to ourselves, used to our lives, our surroundings, our situations. We begin to think we are common, that there’s nothing special about us, indeed that our very basic days are as good as life gets.
Preface: A Note About Desert of Solitude
Preface: A Note About Desert of Solitude
Two common pieces of feedback received for My God and Me, the first book about my faith journey, was (1) the material was dense and (2) frequent pauses were needed to reflect on what was shared. As a result, I’ve taken great care to make the pages of Desert of Solitude more welcoming to read by adding breaks and transitions in the form of poems, notes, songs and sermons.
Sermon: Family Matters – Future
Family Matters – Future
You can still have the family you envisioned. Just becauae you’ve suffered loss doesn’t mean all is lost. Its never too late to go back and grieve something you didn’t grieve before and move forward from there.
Charlie & Dorothy Duke: The Greatest Walk Ever
Link: http://tsc.ms/s3 Intro at 43:00 mark The Dukes shared their marriage testimony in three parts: his point of view, her point of view and a joint point of view when they got […]
Sermon: Why Marriage? by Nik Godshall
Nik Godshall’s sermon titled, “Why Marriage?” is an excellent message about the beauty of maintaining sexual purity for marriage and continuing with faithfulness in the relationship.
On editing an autobiographical work
There was no struggle with the first steps or middle ones. Only eagerness, a sense of purpose and a need to follow-through. The final actions carried the most anxiety because of their finality, perhaps because of the level of commitment and trust required to let go of the life I had been building for over twelve years.
