I’m having a hard time getting my thoughts out of my head. I’m frustrated. I’ve seen the wind and the waves. I’m overwhelmed at the task God has given me and I feel inadequate. Truth is, I am inadequate, and that’s OK because it’s God’s dream and not my own. So naturally only He can [...]

Wow. It has been a long, long time since I have had time to write or even think. I miss it. I work so much now, it wears me out. I fight to maintain my walk with God – scraping and clawing and fighting each day to find time to read His Word. My usual [...]

I’ve been feeling very stifled lately. I’m working like crazy to pay off credit cards as fast as possible. It’s been good to work hard and pursue a goal like becoming debt free, but my soul is struggling with the payoff. Yes, I am paying off quite a bit off my credit cards, but what [...]

Here’s a song/poem I wrote to deal with everything I’ve been facing with lately. I don’t even know what to call it. So I’ll pick something random from it. I wrote this back in June when it seemed like I was getting hit from every angle. It was one thing after another after another, and [...]

Continuing the Retro Valiant blog posts. Wrestling with God ORIGINAL POST DATE: 09.01.2008 Have you ever felt like God is calling you to do something, and it literally scares the heck out of you? Have you ever felt called to do something that seems completely ridiculous and beyond reason? This is me right now. So [...]

I know I should be going to sleep. I have to be at work at 5am. But I wrote this in January, but I cannot believe how relevant it is for me even today.    There are good reasons to weep.  Sometimes you are so blessed by the people around you, you weep. Sometimes you [...]