Category: Christianity
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The Age of Unlearning
The thing that stands out to me now, as I reflect on my childhood and early adulthood, was that I was enmeshed with those who held authority in my denomination. To be honest, I expect I had rose-coloured glasses on
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‘Actually’ Autistic…
I’m a year shy of 50, where apparently one no longer gives a f&#@ about what anyone else things of them, so maybe it’s just me getting ahead of the curve while I have the fortitude to do so.
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Power
Miriam E. Miles
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forgiveness
Miriam E. Miles
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Write the truth or don’t write at all
We live in a society that swells with saccharine, predictable, cookie-cutter creativity and shun (or at the very least, tolerate) that which causes the breath to trip, the mind to lurch, and the heart to stop with its brazen approach to arrest us and force us
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We were never going to be enough
There is an exquisite beauty in discovering that we are unable to do this life thing on our own. To know that we are guided, gently and intentionally toward the heart of the One who loves us most, is the one pure gift that can never be measured. Humility isn’t about declaring we can’t do…
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Mai Tai
By Miriam E. Miles
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validate me, validate me not
By Miriam E. Miles
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salt
Don’t look back, He said, lest you turn to salt; it’s time to do new things, and forget the old – every day is a new day – His mercies are new every morning…
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Anchor
My boat sits atop the ocean, the sky, and waves indistinguishable in the dead of night. I sense the wave coming and brace
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Humble pie
I have become quite uncomfortable with the level of humility God seems to want me to experience.
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Excuse Me, But Which Way to Encounter God?
I’ve been reflecting lately on the way we relate to God and what the experience of having a relationship with him might really be like if we move beyond the standard metrics we’ve come to accept.
Miriam E. Miles 