MY LIFE IS not a story about me. And your life’s not a story about you. My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart. There’s nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about [...]
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Let Him chisel away
March 12th, 2012 
Iris I got this video from a churchmate, and honestly I wasn’t too excited at first to watch it because it was 9 minutes long. The first couple of minutes changed my mind. If you struggle with (spiritual and/or emotional) dead weight like most people, we itch and scratch and try to claw our way out. [...]
Grey is the color of passion
February 15th, 2012 Iris Off the top of your head, what is the color of passion? Red. Orange. Bright burning yellow. Neon? Deep blue or green even. Something bright and vividly deep. Not grey. Grey is the color of humdrum lukewarm temperament. “To be passionate, it would seem, is to tingle with anticipation (always), to possess a rapid-beating heart [...]
Art matters to God too
February 14th, 2012 Iris I wanted to be an artist when I was a kid. My dad is (not ‘was’ because as they say, ‘once you learn how to ride a bike, you never forget’; come on now, make the association) an artist and made a living out of it when Photoshop wasn’t the drug of choice for cover [...]
So God answered my prayer. Now what?
January 29th, 2012 Iris Is there faith in answered prayers? Is your belief tested when there is abundance? Do you claim with the same certainty that God will provide when you are happy and content, as when you have nothing to hold on to? Most likely you will answer ‘no’. It seems unusual for your faith to be [...]
