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Speaking Names | Anything But Empty
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Let your words be anything but empty. We are at once both desperate and terrified of being known. This is not a particularly original thought nor am I the first to have observed and experienced this in my own life, but as I attempted several times to write over the past few days, this is where my thoughts kept going: this and to that moment in the garden when Mary Magdalene recognized her risen Savior. Woman, why are you crying? Nothing. This man is still a stranger to her. Who are you looking for? But w...
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Abuse and Throwing Stones | Anything But Empty
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Let your words be anything but empty. Abuse and Throwing Stones. Let he who has no sin cast the first stone. But sometimes this verse is lifted out; lifted out from the heart of Jesus for the hurting, marginalized, abused and voiceless. I’ve recently heard this verse used specifically in a Christian abuse context in order to expedite the story of redemption and forgiveness, while bypassing the work of true healing that is often necessary in the face of abuse. Jesus spoke those words as her advocate.
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Love and Roots | Anything But Empty
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Let your words be anything but empty. All the while never stopping to pray and decide if this was coming out of a sincere desire to follow Jesus or out of a desperate desire to be relevant to the people they are losing. All the while forgetting that, on a very basic level, we are craving something other then what the world is offering us, not just the same thing dressed in sacred symbols and Christian rhetoric. Why, in our own way, do we romanticize not being able to count on something? The irony is that...
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About Yesterday | Anything But Empty
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Let your words be anything but empty. That was the plan. And I’ve tried to write it many times, but I haven’t been able to get past the first paragraph. My mind, and heart, hasn’t been able to stay there. I haven’t been able to write something happy and light and affirming because my heart is aching and weighted. Because I am sad, angry, frustrated and sick with the pain of the world. I can’t write that post yet. And now, even as we watch in relief as thousands make it out, we know there are still many t...
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Push through the volley...: January 2008
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Push through the volley. Because everyone needs some place to let go. Thursday, January 31, 2008. Sorry for the delay in posts but I am trying to finsh up King Spencer and it is taking time to write. Till then,. Tuesday, January 29, 2008. True Story. I'm not even going to exaggerate. When I got inside I was met by several ladies who asked me what I needed. I explained that I was a film student working on a Christian project and needed a theater. They said that they were new to the church but I sh...I loo...
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Push through the volley...: September 2007
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Push through the volley. Because everyone needs some place to let go. Sunday, September 30, 2007. Knife at a Gunfight (Part Three). Continued from Part Two). Nabal’s intelligent and beautiful wife? One of Nabal’s servants tells Abigail that Nabal left David out to dry and that David is on his way to kill all the men. Abigail thinks very quickly – packing up a bunch of food on donkeys and heads out to intercept David. Then God snatched the life right out of him. David knows and accepts responsibility.
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Push through the volley...: November 2007
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Push through the volley. Because everyone needs some place to let go. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. One more cigarette on top of the pool house. Before leaving here, leaving Amanda, Velvet, leaving me. Baggy pants, shag face, hint of fabric softener. As a second savior, to follow the dream. One alone, left to sleep, hand in hand with computer keys. No ambition but a decayed town in. Longing for Velvet, for security, for laughter in his sleep. One found another to dominate and return home, never graduate.
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Anything But Empty | "Let your words be anything but empty." | Page 2
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Let your words be anything but empty. Abuse and Throwing Stones. Let he who has no sin cast the first stone. But sometimes this verse is lifted out; lifted out from the heart of Jesus for the hurting, marginalized, abused and voiceless. I’ve recently heard this verse used specifically in a Christian abuse context in order to expedite the story of redemption and forgiveness, while bypassing the work of true healing that is often necessary in the face of abuse. Jesus spoke those words as her advocate.
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Eshet Chayil | Anything But Empty
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Let your words be anything but empty. A few weeks ago I wr ote about women; how women see, relate to, and speak to one another. I tried to address some of the underlying tensions that taint the way women interact and the stereotype that women secretly dislike and distrust one another, with every insult, compliment and dialogue cloaked in some kind of veiled attempt to tear the other one down. Blogger and author Rachel Held Evans introduced me to a concept of the Proverbs 31. You are a woman of valor.