uncertainty – Page 2 – Christy Wilkens

Deeper

Deep Dive Fiji Sunshine by Erin Khoo on Flickr

I wish I could say I am secure enough in my trust of God’s plan and providence to voluntarily move deeper into the hard and messy stuff that is this life. That appears to be what He is asking of me in 2018.

Following God’s will is not a free pass from suffering

In asking us to willingly choose a cross and do work, God does not promise us any immunity from failure or from other suffering.

Chasing the name

Diagnosing special needs children requires making peace with The Cloud of Unknowing.

The girl in the bubble

Lately, a troubling situation has been occurring with some regularity. Many of my friends, enduring trials and suffering of their own, explicitly downplay the seriousness of those situations in recounting them to me. They use phrases that are meant to acknowledge the profundity and difference of what we have endured this year; that acknowledgment, I…