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Well. It has been a hot minute since I have posted anything (yes, I said hot minute. Showing my age. Get over it lol.) Considering the rather melancholy note on which I left this blog inactive (see this post for reference), it is quite fitting that I should come back today with a remarkably positive spirit. A bit of inspiration was sparked from someone very dear to me. We were discussing hope, love and just sharing life through a conversation when she said something that gave me such pause that I stopped to not only remark on how beautiful I thought it was, but also that I felt I had heard it somewhere.

Religion vs Relationship

Out of darkness, into marvelous light. You’ll read that phrase multiple times in the coming paragraphs, and it is and will be a common theme on this site. From deep and meaningful posts to intricate and passionate fiction: all for the glory of the God that rescued me! Out of darkness, into marvelous light. That resonates within my spirit, bounces around the inside of my home, echoes across the yard… Out of darkness, into marvelous light! It’s the true Gospel message, one that is starting to break out in a world that so desperately needs to hear it. Seriously, we live in one divided, divisive, lost, confused and outright broken world. I’m here to bring light in all aspects of life, especially with this blog as a place of refuge, passion and hope!

Responding vs Reacting

Look, I think that it’s safe to say we have all noticed how divisive our culture is at present. Note that I said divisive, not divided. We like to argue. We say things on social media that most would never dare utter out loud, let alone in public. Heaven forbid we actually mean what we say and say what we mean…

Freedom At The Well

Wow, what a wild few weeks it has been. If you have been following my blog, I have no doubt that you’ve seen the torrential journey that I have been on these past few years. My eyes well up with tears as I draft this next article, and I pray you take great care to listen and heed what comes next, because, by the grace of God, I have at last found peace, and my trouble heart has been restored!

The Drowning Man

We all know the age old saying, “the drowning man will always try to drag someone down with him”, and the 2016 film Passengers… Wow, 2016? Has it really been five years since I watched that movie in theaters? Man. How the time flies…

*Ahem*. I digress…

If you’ve seen Passengers, you should be familiar with the choice that the would-be protagonist Jim Preston made. It set the course for the rest of the film, and towards the end one of the others characters says of Jim, “the drowning man will always try to drag someone down with him. It ain’t right, but the man’s drowning.”

So what do we do when we feel like we are isolated, sinking deep, drowning? Our hand is outstretched, we’ve been pushed to our limit and feel as though the whole world is crumbling down right on top of us? Worse still, no one seems to notice or care or understand just how much we are hurting? What, then? Do we lash out, shut down, grow as cold as the dark that envelops us? Cling to the hand that reaches out to rescue us and drag it down into the deep with us?