An introduction to “Don’t you dare love me!” “It’s too intense to be published for readers on the public market” Intended, I guess as constructive criticism, these words took root. I know they weren’t meant to be offensive and I trust this one more than most, but to say it is too intense, is to […]
When this voice whispers into my heart, it is terrifying! It is unraveling and uncomfortable… With hundreds of thoughts, all constantly vying for attention, why is it that this thought, this one thing, keeps making its way towards the center? Let me love you. God, You are asking me to give You permission to love […]
Maybe I have subconsciously placed you alongside the gods of Mythology… The story of Hosea* has taken me by surprise. It has opened my eyes – actually my very soul – to Your heartache God, and in doing so, You have revealed a side of You that I had not before given much attention to, or attributed […]
God, You ask Hosea to take to himself (Hosea 1:2 NKJV), Gomer. You ask him to unite with her, take her to himself in closeness, in vulnerability, and in genuine care for her – to join, to marry, to make her his own precious wife – for life. You are not just asking Hosea to […]
Casual def – easy going; happening by chance; fortuitous; without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing; seeming or tending to be indifferent to what is happening; apathetic; unconcerned. The words, take to yourself, meant for Hosea to make Gomer his. It was a relationship for them to have solely with each other. He was […]
I’m into James Arthur at the moment. Just loving his lyrics and sound. He has written a song, “Let me love the lonely” – it is perhaps unknowingly to him, a deeply spiritual song, whose lyrics speak of the desire to have someone who will love us intimately. I have listened to it often, lately. If the […]
Go, love your wife again though she is…“intimate with chocolate cake”. What?! “The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin […]
Eve, we live with a curse far beyond what you could ever have anticipated. You never once thought that eating the fruit could cause anything other than good. You did not know what a curse was. You did not know evil. You would never have chosen what came. What you anticipated was more. More good. You only […]