by Cara Sexton | Aug 12, 2013 | authentic christianity, READ
I sit in the porch rocker and soak up the silence. It’s a discipline I’m learning is essential to embracing the mysterious wonder of God but it does not come naturally to me, leaving room in my life for encountering the quiet without distraction. At home, the phone...
by Cara Sexton | Jul 8, 2013 | authentic christianity, READ
I flip through pages, thousands of them, all tissue thin with an ink everlasting. They tell the stories, this Holy Book of books; these living, breathing words unfolding the hearts of saints and sinners, words that mark the law of Moses and the ministry of Jesus, this...
by Cara Sexton | Jun 10, 2013 | i am bibledude
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. –Psalm 17:8 There are days when I plead for Him to come and come soon. When the weight of the whole broken business of life grabs hold and pulls me straight to the bottom, when I’m sure this can’t...
by Cara Sexton | May 13, 2013 | authentic christianity, READ
He hands me a mason jar full of crumpled fives and hard-earned ten dollar bills. He’s only been here since December, our newly adopted son, but he’s no stranger to hard work and has earned well for himself. “I want to help my brother buy a new computer,” he says. “You...
by Cara Sexton | Apr 8, 2013 | authentic christianity, READ
[serialposts] I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was...
