Category: January 2025
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The Pit
Someone asked me once,“What do you think is the scariest thing in the world?”I was unable to really answer them then,And I think I maybe said something typical,Like spiders, loneliness, or maybe even death.But it wasn’t until I became an adult that I noticed it,The most truly terrifying thing in…
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Special January Post
It’s the fifth week of January and for our special post we decided to test our poetry skills. Alice and I wrote this poem together. I did the first half and she did the second half. The origin of the theme of this poem is from an encounter we had…
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Melt Me
This poem is inspired by a passage I read in the book “Deeper” by Dane C. Ortlund. In a section of the book that talks about santification and justification he writes, “You can’t crowbar your way into change. You can only be melted.” (pg. 91, Deeper) This was a paradaigm…
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The Raging of my Landscape
There’s another aspect to being salt that I never considered. The Bible calls us to season our speech with salt, but the kind of grace and wisdom we need to do that comes from God. It also comes from self-reflection. Meditating on the scriptures while you look at your own…
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A Sober Mind
What I have written this week references 1 Peter 5:8. Where Peter tells believers that have been dispersed to various places to “Be sober minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” His use of the term sober minded equates to…
Streams of Comfort 