There are so many competing entities in our world throwing out what they call truth. We must ask where we get our truths from? Do friends speak into your life, meaning well but unfortunately misguided at times? Does family build you up but also let you down with their own gathered pieces of truth? Does…
Month: August 2019
True Feelings
“The truth is: you’re bossy and annoying!” The taut frame of the young girl, rigid with frustration exploded with these words, then she turned heel and ran, her ponytail bouncing exclamation marks after her. Like the girl, our negative but true feelings underlie our bursts of accusation. “The truth is…” usually prefaces revealing feelings held…
Listening for Truth
Find your truth. Live your truth. Truth is whatever you want it to be. Truth is up to interpretation, culture, imagination. Truth. There are so many uses and connotations for this word today. But if we look way back, we can see that truth is something that has been sought in every generation. Blaise Pascal,…
Lies, Slander, and Trying to Be Like Christ
Tears fell from my eyes as I tried to grasp the reality that my name and my family members’ names were being spoken of in a hurtful way, our reputations and character muddied with gross untruths. How could someone I know and love say that about me? How could my family be trampled on in…
Finding Truth in a Culture that Distorts Fact
In a time when society is trying to twist, turn, and stretch the meaning of the word fact, when I think of truth, the word “distortion” comes to mind. It’s also a time when I’m seeing the truth of God get distorted and misrepresented, but this isn’t new. This is a tale as old as…
Survival of the Silent
Her head so high, not quite in vain, The truth inside, a bit arcane. She hides it tight to cloak the pain; The price of peace becomes a strain. The sin has left behind a stain, The scar, the mark—her life, her bane. To drag along this weighted chain She builds to fall and grow…
Truth Illuminates
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. John 3:21 NIV Truth shines a brilliant LightAll that is within revealingSecrets hidden morph to lieBut succumb to God’s healing All that is within revealingHurt and anger…
Anchored Voices 