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She read the entries that chronicled her dying faith. On the last written page she read,"God, if you won't show yourself to me, you are either not real, or But she realized God had been even closer, this whole time. Her logic deducted with undeniable clarity that if this ghost was real, the spiritual world was real And this meant that not only was God real, but that he cared enough to bring her to this moment to answer

King David saw that God had given him a large "house of Cedar" and David realized he hadn't even given God a house this good. God seemed content to live in a tabernacle. God isn't against having a permanent home. But in Revelations, in God's final kingdom, God's throne seems pretty permanent.

Right and wrong seem to be the only thing we really know. and so God pulled together plan B to get us there, which isn’t so obvious. What easier way would there be to get to God!? Now suddenly we are lost in the bushes and bogs and only now do we realize the highway is just too high We need to know the guide sent from God.

But it made our God seem very obsolete. You are heathens and our God is greater!” Do I see any proof God really would like rescue me or something? I’m really glad I went to Ethiopia where I recorded pastors telling me about miracle after miracle. That reminds me, maybe the Christian God really is working in this world.

It was that God learns. How is that possible if God is outside of time and can flip to any page in history and read it like a God descended “with” us. And he did it for the purpose of living in real relationship with us. he sets that aspect of his character aside so he can be in a real relationship with his children.

And it just seems like there is no God. But then I realize it’s hard to believe because I’ve confused ‘believing in God’ with ‘believing there is a God like the one I have in my head.’ And then I consider the odds, and realize that there is very likely a creator to this intricately working

We so often ask, “Where is God, while so much hate and hurt is in the world?” There will be a moment in which God bursts into the world as beauty blares brightly in darkness. And only because of the darkness will the beauty be really recognized.

When I walked out of my boss’ office the other day, after being proven wrong, I realized something: God

end we are either the ones who work through our suffering for the ultimate purpose of uniting us to God

I get frustrated when I read that we must hate our family or we cannot be Jesus’ disciple (Lk 14:26). but on my best days I believe he was God. 

I do have plenty of resources using art to facilitate a closer encounter with God, but today I want to But OCD also reared its head when I had doubt about God. Once I realized that I had diagnosable Relationship OCD I went to a secular counselor designated for It worked, if I was really able to force my mind to do this. Instead of just dropping the thought, I started offering each one up to God. I ask for help.

If only I could pray, not to the idea of God in my head, but instead to the real God that made it.