Tag: freedom

• I Am Not Enough

  

  I am not enough. I will never be enough. I am inadequate. Completely, desperately inadequate. I sit at the counter and feel the weight of those words pressing down on me, pressing me into the counter top. I am unable to push back. Why do these thoughts oppress me when they are true? The truth sets […]

  nicholeq

  September 5, 2013

  God, Hope, purpose, spirituality, Words for the Weary

  failure, freedom, God, hope, independence, Jesus, life, purpose, spirituality, truth

• A Palace in Prison

  There’s all sorts of prisons, aren’t there? There’s the jails with barbed wire, armed guards, barred cells and the clamor of convicted felons. There’s the places where prisoners of war are isolated and tortured. There are work camps and slavery for the persecuted, imprisoned for their religion, beliefs or ethnicity, stripped of all dignity, starved, beaten and forced to do labor their weakened bodies can barely endure. These […]

  nicholeq

  March 30, 2011

  God, Hope, life, relationships, spirituality, Words for the Weary

  freedom, Genesis, God, hope, Jesus, Joseph, Judah, life, prison, relationships, spirituality