by Cara Sexton | Mar 11, 2013 | PRAY, spiritual practice
I am wound too tight by schedules and piles these days while quiet lingers always out of grasp, and so many bodies in tight spaces can overwhelm a heart longing for reverberation. His voice, it seems, comes to me like pond ripples, such a subtle vibration that I’m...
by Cara Sexton | Feb 11, 2013 | for reflection, PRAY
He nibbles graham crackers on the couch, sticky crumbs and a slice of lunch meat cut into “pizza shapes” because that’s the only way he’ll eat it. Five hairs stick straight at his crown and there is dirty black beneath his fingernails. Frayed socks, chapped lips, a...
by Cara Sexton | Oct 4, 2012 | authentic christianity, i am bibledude
Dear Friend, I wanted to write you a letter, you who hate religion, you who think the Christians are responsible for so much hatred in the world, you who is tired of hearing about Jesus from people who don’t seem to even know him. You, who wants nothing to do...
by Cara Sexton | Jun 12, 2012 | for reflection, PRAY, spiritual practice
“Abram believed the Lord, and he credited to him as righteousness.” – Genesis 15:16 I know the verse. I’ve heard about grace, about faith versus works and the whole nine. I get the big deal about righteousness. It means to be good, to do what’s...
by Cara Sexton | Apr 20, 2012 | authentic christianity, READ
I write the truth. I have written a lot of words over the course of my 32 years on this planet and I find one element that binds them to those who stumble onto them. One string runs down the middle of my ramblings and (to God’s glory), that string can be a...
