A Garden In Your Desert

I have been going back through some personal journal entries from this past year, and I wanted to open my heart and share a couple short excerpts from them. I pray they are an encouragement to you. Throughout this year, (well, in actuality, all of my life I have felt this, but specifically I am…

Unwaivering Hope and Faith

I have been going back through some personal journal entries from this past year, and I wanted to open my heart and share a couple short excerpts from them. I pray they are an encouragement to you. Throughout this year, (well, in actuality, all of my life I have felt this, but specifically I am…

My Favourite Things

This is a list of some of my favourite things, whether they are just things that I deem delicious and lovely, or things that just make me uniquely me. Of course, I may tweak the list over time, but chances are, if they made the list, they are loved with quite a significance, so I'm…

Consummation: the longing of our souls

Definition: Brought to completion; the point at which something is complete, finalized, altogether total, or perfect; the making of the highest, most supreme perfection. Consummation. I’ve been contemplating this word a lot these days. I think that consummation is at the core of our heart. I believe it is our deepest longing. It is the…

Encountering God in a Little Kitchen

So, I was cooking dinner just now in my humble little kitchen. Well, multi-tasking, essentially. You see, my mind always wanders as I cook. Classic Alison. Doing one thing, but my brain is somewhere else. So, I was thinking about a certain area in my life that I have normally kept my fingerprints all over,…