I’m a know-needer. It’s not that I think I know it all, but that I want to know it all. The “what-ifs” of life are maddening to me. When they come up, I tend to identify every possibility and follow it to its end. At least that way I feel that I’ll know what to do with whichever option comes true. And at least then I won’t have to live with regrets…right? No matter how much we try to know, we don’t know it all. There are always opportunities we can’t see. The Lord is always at work on Continue Reading
Relentlessly Followed {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
It was an acute case of the heebie-jeebies. I’d been watched and followed, and it shook me to the core. I spent the summer after my college freshmen year in ministry at Virginia Beach, Virginia with CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ). A mission at the beach—somebody had to do it. A young, crisp nineteen-year-old who wanted to make a difference in the world. Pursuing Christ with my whole heart and a passion to make Him known. College students from across the U.S. and one from England completed Continue Reading
Bringing Pieces of Heaven to Earth {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
Heaven on earth? Really, Karen? Is there even such a thing? Why, yes. Yes, there is! And we have access to front-row-seat tickets. Yet, I’m not talking about things or situations we attribute to the phrase, “It was heaven on earth.” Such as food, trips, or any experience we feel was heaven-like. We are so limited in what we imagine for heaven. It’s much bigger and carries more awe than we realize. A New Heaven and Earth But the new heaven and earth will one day replace this fallen Continue Reading
