Thriving Roots

03/06/2025

07/08/2024

Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires... James 1:20 NLT

06/25/2024

In the midst of conflict.....

06/21/2024

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself... Watchman Nee

06/11/2024

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

05/03/2024

So first maybe just a word on the experience of detachment and what that means. It really is going to be different for each person. Each person probably means something a little bit different when they say that they experience detachment. For some it's a numbing out or even a losing touch with their...

05/02/2024

Being honest or aware of ourselves is not very helpful outside of the presence of a gracious God...

04/30/2024

God enjoys our cooperation. But he doesn't need it. He is the "I AM".