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 31, 2022 | Seasonal Reflections
A letter for the New Year… I’m so tired of Hallmark and Pixar stealing the word miracle and degrading it to “magic”. The world would have us believe that the two concepts are completely interchangeable… or else, if there has to be a...
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...
by ParticularlyCALLED | Jun 13, 2020 | Personal Growth |
In many respects I am the last person who should ever be writing about this topic. God as Father? Childlike faith has almost always had an impossible and, if we are being perfectly honest, even slightly repulsive ring to it in my mind. My whole childhood I LONGED to...
by ParticularlyCALLED | Mar 18, 2020 | Discernment, Quiet and Listening to God
What are we supposed to think when God is silent? If He truly loved us wouldn’t He speak? We are seeking desperately for answers, for encouragement, for consolation… and yet we are met with quiet. Why? Did I do something wrong? Does He not love me? Does He not care?...