“You are a root. And only God knows what the flower will be. Don’t get lost castigating yourself for being a root. Without the root, the flower can never be. The flower is an expression of what now appears so lowly and unimportant, a waste. … Even though [you are] this ugly, ordinary-looking root, [you…
Author: Joshua
Since 2001, Joshua has been writing his musings on life, liberty and the pursuit of godliness on this little blog. It's full of all kinds of fun little adventures and wisdom nuggets but mostly just the journey of a man through life.
True Rebuilding
“The focus is on the rebuilding… not the tearing down. The old must be torn down for the new to be raised; to have a resurrection you must have a crucifixion, but God wastes nothing, not even the wrong we imagined into existence. In every building torn down, there is as much that remains that…
Boundaries
“You need boundaries, but not walls. Walls divide while boundaries honor. Even in … creation, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river. We will teach you how to thrill with us in the boundaries while you learn…
Simple Gifts of Thankfulness
My head hurts from hearing so much about Black Friday and Pre-Black Friday and all the deals you don’t want to miss so come on out and buy buy buy spend spend spend! What would provoke me to go out on Thanksgiving Day and stand in line with hundreds of others so that I can…