Out of the Chaos
Inspiration for living outside of the chaos.
Tag: identity
OUT OF THE CHAOS 02.03.2021
Today was a windy, cold day in southwest Florida. Waves pounded the shorelines, sand blew across the beach filling my shoes, cold penetrated my clothes while the wind wreaked havoc with my hair. Too loud for conversation, I walked in silence as I scoured the beach for treasures. Even with all the wind and resulting …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 02.01.2021
As I sat down to write this post, the phrase “the sun comes up, it’s a new day dawning” ran through my mind. Being sure it is a song, I googled the phrase and sure enough, it is! I read the lyrics and quickly realized the song put into words what God has been laying …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.29.2021
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 There is an undeniable link between faith and hope. Faith is the confidence in our expectation. Without faith, there is no hope. Without hope…well, we are not truly alive. I do not …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.28.2021
4But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 5God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. 6And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.27.2021
My first dream, the hope of my heart from a very young age was to one day be a wife and mother. I planned for it, I imagined it, I wanted it. Did I confidently expect it? Perhaps. Until one day in the sixth grade, a classmate told me she didn’t know who would ever …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.26.2021
Hope: looking forward with confident expectation. As I scour the scriptures to build a theology of hope, I find that hope is always linked to Jesus’ death on the cross. It is his death that secures my future. I am guaranteed eternity with him in heaven and I look forward to it with confident expectation. …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.22.2021
This week I have been meditating on Psalm 90. Moses, the psalmist, writes about the brevity of life, comparing it to grasses of the field – here today, gone tomorrow. If we are lucky, we will have 70-80 years here on this earth, he says. When I was 20, that sounded like a long time. …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.21.2021
Wednesday I was at the beach. Two experiences stand out to me that I want to share. First, conversation travels quite well at the beach. No wonder Jesus preached from a boat on the water. Everyone could hear! Anyway, back to the conversation I overheard. A group of seasoned adults were sharing their thoughts about …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.20.2021
Today is the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States. I don’t know where you fall on the political spectrum, if this is a celebration or a time of mourning. There is one thing I am confident about — God is still in heaven and he still rules! This psalm says it well. …
OUT OF THE CHAOS 01.19.2021
Sunday night I crawled into bed quite distraught. I knew I would have trouble setting it aside and sleeping well, so I reached for my Ipad to open the Bible app and read something. I immediately remembered that Dave and I hadn’t listened to the daily scriptures for the One Year Bible plan. Silently, I …
Out of the Chaos 