SMASHED SAINT

Category: courage

  • Secret Devotion: Care for the Body of Jesus

    When we think about uncompromising devotion to Jesus, many of us will automatically remember Mary and her broken alabaster jar. Indeed, she has been remembered and honored for centuries; her act of devotion and love to Jesus in the days prior to His terrifying ordeal on the cross has been the subject of many sermons…

  • Forty-Eight Days Later

    forgive me I just remembered now, on Cyber Monday to give thanks–and not just for general things to an absentee Creator– but to give thanks for a specific thing to an omnipresent ever-present One. by the way, there always seems to be a lull, a dip, a low right around this time–I’m never prepared for…

  • Intercession, a poem

    Intercession, a poem

    It’s after a long night of marching up and down those black-white syncopated keys singing the alphabets of heaven (that cut my voice a sharper edge, a windswept whisper) it’s after these nights as the dawn inches closer into my eyes that I become Tender-er to your Love, keen on its angles, corners, shadows and…

  • Is Our Creator a Nihilistic Colonizer?

    Is Our Creator a Nihilistic Colonizer?

    There’s a Hebrew word, asah (aw-saw’, Strong’s H6213), that means, “to do, to make, to accomplish, to complete.” It conveys a sense of purpose and goal in the making. We see this verb in Genesis 1:26– Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over…

  • America, the Beautiful?

    America, the Beautiful?

    I had originally written this back in September of 2016, after many months of heaviness, tears, and prayer. It was also an election year (how could we forget?) and things were crazy then, but not as crazy as now. I’ve changed a few things for the sake of coherency, and added a couple new thoughts,…

  • Why Breonna and Black Lives Matter to Me

    Why Breonna and Black Lives Matter to Me

    Note: I sat on this post for about a week and a half, before the charges were dropped against Kenneth Walker. I was debating whether this post (which is mostly my own meandering process and at times borders on self-indulgent) was beneficial to share, or if it would just add to the online cacophony. But,…

  • Justice, Be Swift

    Justice, Be Swift

    Amos 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. In remembrance of Ahmaud Arbery.

  • Diamonds in the Fire

    Diamonds in the Fire

    Confession: These diamonds cost me a lot though… A few days ago during some prayer time, I heard the Lord quietly say, “diamonds in fire.” Being an INFP and an Ennea 5w4, I had so many questions and buzzing thoughts I didn’t quite know where to begin. I settled down like the beginning of a…

  • Albeit Adam

    { A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z } #2 Albeit Adam Bastardly birthed Criminal crosses Death decrees Easter eggs Familiar foes– Graceful God, He had Insanely imagined (justly judged kryptonite killings) Lunatic Love:    …

  • Seoul Searching, Part 1

    Seoul Searching, Part 1

    In the Spring of 2013, I began to acutely feel the pull to go to the nations, specifically Korea. The craving for Korea was so deep, I began devouring Korean Dramas–which I had previously never had an interest in. I would lose sleep some nights just to finish watching a drama. I thought I was totally backsliding.…