by ParticularlyCALLED | Oct 21, 2025 | Calling, Intimacy, Trauma and Healing Wounds |
A long time ago I wrote an article about friendship with God being the answer to our loneliness. It was a beautiful piece about all the practical ways God fills all aches of our hearts (ie. not just a cliche). However, the perspective was more from a place of...
by ParticularlyCALLED | May 21, 2024 | Role of Religion
Religion taught you you should want to be good. Religion taught you you should naturally love God. Religion taught you to feel like everybody else finds this easy and made you feel that if you don’t there is something wrong with you. Religion threatened you with...
by ParticularlyCALLED | Dec 21, 2023 | Endurance, Seasonal Reflections
Have you ever questioned how True Joy in the Lord can be compatible with taking up your cross as a Christian? Have you ever despaired of being able to “Choose joy” just because everybody tells you that’s what you are supposed to do? Have you ever...
by ParticularlyCALLED | Jul 26, 2022 | Personal Growth, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Growth
The word mortification is a terrifying one. It literally comes from the Latin mortificare which means “to put to death”, specifically, in traditional understanding, “the desires of the flesh”. It was considered essential for salvation back in...
by ParticularlyCALLED | Jun 1, 2022 | Grace and Strength, Personal Growth
I was talking to a friend the other day. “What should I do if I just feel blah about God?”, she asked, “I’m just not growing any more – not motivated, not changing – it’s tempting to just give up on God’s even being real at all. Where is the excitement, the...
