Renewed. What does that actually mean? It’s not just refreshed, or rebuilt, or replenished, or reordered, or redone. They’re all great, but renewed. To become new again. It sounds simple, but it’s actually impossible. Or is it? A couple who’s been married for seventeen years and signing the divorce papers because the husband is narcissistic […]
“All the nations surrounded me; in the Lord’s name I crushed them. They surrounded me on every side; in the Lord’s name I crushed them. They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like fire among thorns; in the Lord’s name I crushed them. I was hard-pressed and falling, but the LORD came to my help. […]
“At the heart of Satan’s attack upon you is his attempt to rob you of your true identity and destiny.” –Neal Lozano, Unbound My last blog post was an attempt to regain parts of me that I feel I have lost. Satan had done well in distracting me from receiving God’s full blessing. It’s a […]
“What do you need?” I’ve been asked hundreds of times throughout this past year and a half. I’ve always responded with needs of the ministry and my girls. But then a few people persist, “No, I mean you. What do you need?” I didn’t know. Now I do. I need to rediscover the joys of […]
Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I am back in time on my high school basketball court. I can hear the crowd bellowing, particularly the student section that’s right beneath our basket; I can see my friend, wearing his “Hot-shooter 32, I heart Kate” t-shirt; I can smell the wet socks when our point guard […]
“God, are you there? I believe in you…I think. But then I start doubting. I want to believe,” she prayed one night as she laid on the bare concrete floor staring up the holes in the hut’s ceilings. She was alone as her friend Jane would be out all night on the streets, selling […]
I get a phone call one night from Tenele: “Mom, it’s not good here. My mother is talking things again and she just want money. She no want me here. I’m going to leave at month’s end.” I’m not surprised. Deep down I knew this was going to be the result, but I had hoped […]
I know these streets so well. I’ve walked them hundreds of times. Yet, somehow they seem foreign now in the dark. Nighttime transforms them into a world I do not know. Nor want to know. “Let’s just drive a couple laps around and pray for those we see,” Rachel comments. It’s our first street night. […]
What is it that you want? I mean, really want? A car? Chocolate? Money? To find your ever after? To be a famous somebody? To cure something? To save someone? What do you want? But why? Why do you want those things? Why do we want what we want? What is at the heart of […]
Over the past two months, I didn’t chase after Tenele. I didn’t pursue her or go looking for her at Mangwaneni like in the past. (In fact, I didn’t go to Mangwaneni very much because I couldn’t face the pain of seeing Tenele there.) There is a time and season for everything, and that season […]
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