“If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love” // I posted this verse on my blog ages ago. But as I reread it – it shines even brighter than it did then. I find it kind of profound – that upon stumbling on this truth, firstly – it was like a tiny seed. But over time life seems to almost have […]
My wee annemarie head and heart has been thinking a little bit….. and there’s more….. gosh there’s always more. I’d always heard that fear holds the power to stop me loving other people. That perfect love casts out fear and all that. But it never made sense. Sounds nice though. Ha. Fear. This word always crops up for me.. Like every day. Maybe it’s just me but.. What even is it? In its best […]
It’s funny how we judge other people. Judge their mess-ups and their fails and their inabilities and their insecurities. Or maybe just their weakness. Because at first glance we see people from the outside from our little house. Out of our window. We see their intensity or their shyness or their anger or their abusive nature or their defensiveness and we want to steer clear of ..’that mess’ But.. then. ‘Grace.’ He says. He keeps […]
I was thinking.. Shouldn’t fear at best be a good thing? You know – the thing that stops us from walking in front of a moving car. The thing that tells us not to touch the stove, because our hands will scald. The thing that tells us to beware, to tread carefully because if we don’t, we will be in real danger. That kind of fear, is a good thing. That kind of fear – […]
The moment I stepped out into the salty air, I knew it was something special. My eyes grew wide. You drew me a little deeper in to this always growing romance. As dusk settled and the wind blew, I plucked my hood up and I just sat there. Amazed. Peace for the first time in a while. You told me things that no one else knew to tell me. And at that moment I could […]
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