Christ-Centered Nourishment for the Growth & Vision of the Creative Soul
It is easy and practically the given norm of humanity to find all the reasons why we 'can't' and shouldn't do a thing that has been burning in our hearts to do. We can come up with the typical lists of why's that range from financial restrictions, age, gender, and the all too famous stumbling [...]
This week I was having a conversation with the Lord and telling Him how sorry I was that I haven't made a lot of progress in my life or grown much lately. It's been a difficult few months and life has not felt full of sunshine and rainbows. He startled me with His response as [...]
"When God is your partner, make your plans big!" ~ D.L MOODY Plan BIG! You'd think that that exhortation would make every person who heard it celebrate with a motivated fire for action when in reality it makes a lot of people shrink back in fear and hide under the heavy blankets of safety and [...]
Twenty-nineteen is almost at its end. And if we are honest, we can say that this year has gone by with a flash! Like with years past, we prepare to tackle the holiday season with knives and forks as if this will be our last indulgence before the clock strikes midnight for the last time [...]
The Fall By Candice Coates, written September 28, 2015 The world looked like fire from the view of her bedroom window. The leaves on the trees had been set ablaze by the match called Fall. Life as she had known it, of thin layers and barefoot days, was slowly burning to smoke, leaving behind [...]
"We are on fire. Act now." ~UKNOWN I saw an image of an activist with a sign that read, "We are on fire. Act now." Instantly, the thought of the words of the Savior flickered into a flame in my heart. The scripture is Mark 9:35-38, which reads: "Jesus went through all the towns and [...]
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." JEREMIAH 29:11 A few months ago I had an experience with God where He showed me a picture of Himself as a daydreamer and Author quietly sitting in [...]
"...Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible." -MATTHEW 20:17b When a person sets out to give life to their dream or vision, or even to [...]
*Revised from April 15, 2016 "Worse than being blind is to see and have no vision" ~HELEN KELLER Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no VISION the people PERISH..." (Emphasis mine) To be able to see is one thing, to have a vision is another. Vision is the driving force that calls us to keep putting [...]
The theme of 'gaps' has been swirling around my spirit for a few months now. At first, facing the gaps, acknowledging that they are indeed there and that there is a palpable distance in between myself and Christ is, at first, staggering, then confusing, and then later tempting. The temptation is not one of a [...]
