Essential Grace Blog

There was an article I read in a women's magazine some years ago. It was about the growing trend of glamourising stress. Apparently, people get into competition on their outrageously busy schedules, their tight deadlines, their endless to-do lists and the ever raising blood pressure. I don't quite know if this has something to do with wanting to be important, or trying to paint a picture of productive energy. The point is, stress can never be glamorous. Neither can the lack of balance and pacing in one's life. The Bible speaks about suffering in terms of it being a global experience. It is not exclusive nor can it be patented. For example, when you think of suffering in the typically African perspective, it is easy to imagine that famine, floods, wars, and corruption are localized to this sad part of the world. But this is simply not true, famine, floods, wars, and corruption are well represented all over the world. Perhaps it is much easier to project so me forms of suf...

What can we truly say we know, without a shadow of a doubt? Is there anything out here that is truly true? I know a lot of things that I claim are the truth, for example I know that I hate guavas, I know I cannot stand the smell of wet dog, and I know that I love dancing, I love movement in general-and I know this without a doubt. But what about those things that we say we know but cannot bet our lives on that knowledge? I know that God loves me; I know that He made me, put me together purposefully; and desires for me to be part of His family for eternity.  I know that He was here before time-through time-and will be even after time as we know it is no longer valid. I know that He watches over earth, guiding and protecting, saving and delivering.  I know that He has proved His love for us over and over again; the most through giving His own Son to die in the place of humanity. My knowing is tangible, it is real, and it is far beyond my own understanding. It ...