We don't get it.

People idolize Justin Bieber and the Kardashians and Lady GaGa and Regie Hamm... I could go on. 📝

Fan girl. Sing all their songs. Watch all their shows. Read all their books. Buying the tshirts.

It doesn't equal relationship. We know this.

Fan girling worship on Sundays. Singing all the hymns. Watching all the sermons. Reading all the devotionals and inspiring books. Buying all the religious gear.

It doesn't equal relationship. We don't know this.

#detox

I hear You calling...

I've been searching for things I didn't know were searchable. Questions I always had that were dismissed as "we can't and don't know." Then I find a trail I was drawn to full of tiny answers that exploded in my mind like the most amazing expression of love and realness and fullness. I found a quiet place in the path to stop and think about everything. Process time. I needed a break from all the information that I know I still haven't fully comprehended. Weeks later with friends seeing what I'm seeing.... I took a huge leap and went into uncharted deep water. I needed to know. I had to know. It wasn't acceptable not to know any longer. I felt led to read. The book called to me from the basement totes. I had read it before. I needed to read it again. I never went to dig through my totes. I could still feel it pulling me. We went to the Goodwill for Allie to spend birthday money. Danny and I just roamed around playing with stuff. I glanced at the books to see if I saw anything educational. There it was. Screaming right at me like a love note begging to be ripped open and read with absurd anticipation. The book. I bought it for $.50.... saved myself the trouble of digging through my totes. My mind is blown. Reading this book with new eyes. It's a completely different book. It's gospel. Amazing news. His mercy is literally new every single day. I am overwhelmed with His presence that I can't explain it. In Him I move, breath, and have my being. Totally free. I have everything I thought I had been missing. Pieces I needed to continue down this path. I'm ready. Let's go! Let's go! The journey is grand!!! It is NOTHING like I was told. It's more. So much more. #detox #rambles

Think about it...

"I’m paging through a travel magazine that features safaris in Africa. The pictures are stunning… and normally I would find these images very engaging, yet I skim through the magazine with little interest. The reason is simple: I’m sitting a few feet away from a campfire overlooking a vast african landscape. The magazine is thrown to one side as I notice the elephants that have just arrived at the watering hole, about 50 meters in front of us. Being in the middle of this experience renders the magazine irrelevant."

#detox #idols #profound #relationship

Who are we listening to again?

"In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects."

#detox

Mind Blown

"Nobody wanted God in a box, just a book. Especially an expensive one bound in leather with gilt edges, or was that guilt edges?" #detox